mile-a-minute

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mile-a-minute

noun mile-a-minutes · mile a minute

Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.
mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.
Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.
Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.

adjective mile a minute

not comparable At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour. Mr. Baird adds that this is not the first post-war example of a mile-a-minute timing in G.S.W.R. territory.

adverb mile a minute

idiomatic, informal, not comparable Very fast. He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.

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@misc{mile_a_minute_2026,
  title = {mile-a-minute},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mile-a-minute},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}