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mini

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmɪn.i//

Miniature, tiny, small.

adjective

  1. 1

    Miniature, tiny, small.

Etymology

From the prefix mini-.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA very young dancer.

  2. 2

    A small bottle of perfume.

    In addition to decants, minis, and used bottles of vintage, perfume nips are a fun way to try out vintage, and they seem to be all over the Internet.

  3. 3

    Variant of miniskirtAbbreviation of miniskirt.

    All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire. […] Most important is rolling your skirt so that it is a virtual mini […]

  4. 4

    Variant of minicomputerdatedAbbreviation of minicomputer.

    Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.

    Time sharing will be done by the mini because time sharing (the bulk of which is simple text editing) is the wrong thing to do on a maxi and the right thing on a mini.

  5. 5

    Variant of miniatureAbbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).

    You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.

Etymology

Abbrevations.

Forms

plural
minis
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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).