mile a minute
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rate of sixty miles per hour.
Example Sentences
- "But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice."
- "The new Waterloo-Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute."
- "Transport Scotland now taks about a 'mile a minute' target for ScotRail inter-city services by 2030. At first glance, this sounds pretty impressive, but we've seen that Glasgow-Edinburgh electric services can easily beat this. What of longer journeys? It's 180 miles from Glasgow Queen Street to Inverness, which at a mile a minute translates into a 180-minute (or three-hour) journey."
- "He talks a mile a minute."