hot minute

noun

Definitions

1
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.
2
An extremely short period of time
An extremely short period of time; a moment.
- It didn't take but a hot minute to find out what squadron Craig was with.
- She didn't trust me for a hot minute, but she trusted her perfect eldest child.
- Very cool could easily turn into very rude in a hot minute.
3
An unspecified period of time
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?
- Still, it was always nice to run into each other in the supermarkets or restaurants and talk for a hot minute.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA