new york minute

1. 1.

   a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

   “if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash”

   Synonymsblink of an eyeflashheartbeatinstantjiffysplit secondtricetwinklingwink

   Broadermoment

Questions about new york minute

What does new york minute mean?

new york minute means "a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)".

What is another word for new york minute?

Close synonyms include blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new york minute a common word?

new york minute 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.