FOUR-MINUTE MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does four-minute man mean? 

• FOUR-MINUTE MAN (noun)
  The noun FOUR-MINUTE MAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes

  Familiarity information: FOUR-MINUTE MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUR-MINUTE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("four-minute man" is a kind of...):

miler (a runner in a one-mile race)

Instance hyponyms:

Bannister; Roger Bannister; Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister (English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929))

John Walker; Walker (New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952))