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mad minute noun an intense, short-lived burst of weapon fire US, 1917- We initiated, as was customary in many of the battalions of the 1st Air Cavalry at dusk, a “Mad Minute.” — Kenneth Mertel, Year of the Horse, p. 136, 1968
- And “mad minutes” is when everyboy on perimeter, around the base camp (you have bunkers all the way around it), opens up and fires away with all their fire power for about a minute, two minutes. — John Kerry, The New Soldier, p. 62, 1971
- The “mad-minute,” ten seconds long for want of ammunition, was over. — Nelson DeMille, By the Rivers of Babylon, p. 232, 1978
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