hot minute
hot minute noun: a long period of time.
Noun
hot minute (plural hot minutes)
- 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
- An extremely short period of time; a moment.
- It didn't take but a hot minute to find out what squadron Craig was with.2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, →ISBN
- 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
- Synonyms:
- red-hot minute
- An unspecified period of time; a while.
- 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
- 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
Examples of hot minute in a sentence
- Very cool could easily turn into very rude in a hot minute.2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: a searcher's story, →ISBN, page 163:
- Too bad he considered me a suspect, because I'd be all over that in a hot minute.2016, Shéa MacLeod, The Corpse in the Cabana:
- Not for a hot minute did she think it changed her inability to have lasting love.2017, Julie Ann Walker, Hot Pursuit, →ISBN:
- 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:
Synonyms of hot minute
Forms of hot minute
| plural | hot minutes |
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Questions about hot minute
- What does hot minute mean?
- Hot minute means a long period of time.
- How do you use hot minute in a sentence?
- Very cool could easily turn into very rude in a hot minute.
- What part of speech is hot minute?
- Hot minute is a noun.
- What is the plural of hot minute?
- The plural of hot minute is hot minutes.
Words near hot minute in the dictionary
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