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hot minute en · NOUN
Meanings
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(idiomatic, informal) A long period of time.
She decided to pop up on her big brother because it had been a hot minute since she'd seen him.
2013, Caroline McGill, A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent, →ISBN, page 209:
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(idiomatic, informal) An extremely short period of time; a moment.
Very cool could easily turn into very rude in a hot minute.
2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: a searcher's story, →ISBN, page 163:Not for a hot minute did she think it changed her inability to have lasting love.
2017, Julie Ann Walker, Hot Pursuit, →ISBN:It didn't take but a hot minute to find out what squadron Craig was with.
2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, →ISBN:Too bad he considered me a suspect, because I'd be all over that in a hot minute. Okay, probably not. But I'd flirt a lot.
2016, Shéa MacLeod, The Corpse in the Cabana:She didn't trust me for a hot minute, but she trusted her perfect eldest child.
2012, Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, →ISBN:
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(idiomatic, informal) An unspecified period of time; a while.
We might be in Montana—but, no, that's wrong. We spent time in Montana a month ago. After a few days we have to move. We settled in Oregon for a hot minute, figured it was a good place for disappearing, but one morning we woke to find footprints in the gravel around our rented cabin.
2011, Victor LaValle, Big Machine, →ISBN:At least Dexter can spell and sounds like he went to a junior college for a hot minute.
2013, Terry McMillan, Who Asked You?, →ISBN, page 71:Whatever happened to that guy Michael you dated for a hot minute way back in the stone age?
2010, Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy, →ISBN, page 138:Still, it was always nice to run into each other in the supermarkets or restaurants and talk for a hot minute.
2012, Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone, Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins, →ISBN, page 89:
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Synonyms
red-hot minute