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red-hot minute en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Synonym of hot minute (“an extremely short period of time”); a moment.
    • I didn't buy their version of things for a red-hot minute. 2013, Ellen Kanner, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and what to Eat for Dinner, →ISBN:
    • “Just a red-hot minute!” Tim darted between her and the raging teenager. 2011, Hannah Alexander, Jill Elizabeth Nelson, Season of Danger: Silent Night, Deadly Night\Mistletoe Mayhem, →ISBN:
    • Somewhere behind the navy sky the Cairns ships hung in gravity-defying non-orbit, in any emergency a screaming red-hot minute away. 2012, Ken MacLeod, Engine City: Engines of Light, →ISBN:

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Synonyms

hot minute