lastminute.com

English

Etymology

From lastminute.com, name of an online travel and leisure retailer; see .com (Internet top-level domain).

Adjective

lastminute.com

  1. (informal, humorous) Synonym of last minute (close to a deadline)
    • 2002, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) (page 381)
      We wish the lander well on its arrival on Mars. However, it was all a bit lastminute.com. Perhaps in future there will be more composite and planned space efforts which will be more exciting []
    • 2005, David Harvie, Shut Them Down! (page 204)
      We decided all this on Tuesday July 5 (very lastminute.com).
    • 2021, Chinelo Bally, Sew Chinelo
      (A further point to bear in mind is that you may not always have someone handy to take the measurements for you, especially if, like me, you are a bit lastminute.com, always making your clothes on the day you actually need them!)
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