last mile

1. 1.

   the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place

   Broaderwalk

Questions about last mile

What does last mile mean?

last mile means "the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place".

Is last mile a common word?

last mile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.