Meaning & use
minuteman
A member of an American colonial militia who was ready to fight at a moment's notice during the Revolutionary War era.
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The minuteman grabbed his musket and rushed to the village green at dawn.
Minutemen from nearby farms gathered quickly when word of the British advance spread.
A note on using this word
Minuteman is also the name of a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, an unrelated modern military use of the term.
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