four-minute man

1. 1.

   someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes

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Questions about four-minute man

What does four-minute man mean?

four-minute man means "someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes".

Is four-minute man a common word?

four-minute man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.