Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extremely short period of time.
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- noun An
instant ; a very shorttime .
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- noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
Etymologies
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New York and minute; supposedly from the time between a traffic light turning green and the driver behind you sounding his or her horn
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