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last-minute

adjectiveattested in dialogue

Just before it is too late; in the nick of time.

adjective

  1. 1

    Just before it is too late; in the nick of time.

    He's a last-minute replacement. After today, they'd have had to play with the original roster.

  2. 2

    Done or occurring at the latest possible time before an event.

    Instead, travellers are directed to the respective assembly points; this facilitates any last-minute changes in platform arrangements and also frustrates any would-be queue-jumpers.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).