"New York minute" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Supposedly from the time between a traffic light turning green and the driver behind sounding the horn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "New York minutes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "New York minute (plural New York minutes)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Don Henley (lyrics and music), “New York Minute”, in The End of the Innocence",
          "text": "In a New York minute, everything can change / In a New York minute, you can get out of the rain",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instant; an extremely short time."
      ],
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        [
          "instant",
          "instant"
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          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An instant; an extremely short time."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hot minute"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "instant"
        },
        {
          "word": "moment"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "New York minute"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Supposedly from the time between a traffic light turning green and the driver behind sounding the horn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "New York minutes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "New York minute"
      },
      "expansion": "New York minute (plural New York minutes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hot minute"
    }
  ],
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        "en:Time"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Don Henley (lyrics and music), “New York Minute”, in The End of the Innocence",
          "text": "In a New York minute, everything can change / In a New York minute, you can get out of the rain",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instant; an extremely short time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "instant",
          "instant"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An instant; an extremely short time."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "instant"
        },
        {
          "word": "moment"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "New York minute"
}