heartbeat
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈhɑːrtˌbiːt/
- Informal
:
instante
- Mrs. B., if it was within my power, I'd give you that money in a heartbeat.
It's a little more robust, it's a little more flexible, and it sets in just like a heartbeat.
- It's a little more robust, it's a little more flexible, and it sets in just like a heartbeat.
- And if the audience, you know, if they love this like we all love it and there's demand for, for I'd be there in heartbeat.
- I would like, I would do that in a heartbeat, right?
- But what I could do in a heartbeat is now, oh, I see a situation.
- Are the things that they are unwilling to do things that you would do in a heartbeat for someone you loved that much?
- And I would because of that feeling, I would do this process again in a heartbeat.
- They're just pro people who are leftist that promote their agenda and they can turn on people that were their former allies in a heartbeat.
- And now I have to kind of, if I say like when I was smaller, I would have without a heartbeat said some mean shit about PewDiePie.
- And you know, in the world we live in, you know, people jump on negative A in a heartbeat.
- Me in a heartbeat, and I would then drop to my knees in thanks for the Electoral College.
Examples
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But what I could do in a heartbeat is now, oh, I see a situation.
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I'd go in a heartbeat if I could.
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Every day is a heartbeat, every day another moment.
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- We'll be there in a heartbeat, baby.
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In a heartbeat I invite him in.
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For a second, it was flame and shadow; for a heartbeat, it was smoke and fear.
Fiction book (1992) -
Within a relatively short period of time, the President's heartbeat returned to a normal rhythm.
Academic text (2014) -
"If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd go back there in a heartbeat," she says.
Academic text (2005) -
Winds and waves buffet it from every direction, often changing in a heartbeat.
Academic text (2007) -
An idea can change in a heartbeat when new information emerges.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very short moment that passes quickly
72
1.3
A very short time
43
2.5
A very short moment when something happens
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2.8
A very short moment that passes almost instantly
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4.9
A very short time like a moment
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7.2
A very short time, just a moment
8
2.5
A very short moment of time
5
7.2
A very short moment when something happens
1
9.9
A very short time, like an instant
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Etymology
Heartbeat can mean a very short time, as in the phrase 'in a heartbeat'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of one quick heart beat, so it means 'immediately' or 'in an instant'.