lastminute.com
English
Etymology
From lastminute.com, name of an online travel and leisure retailer; see .com (“Internet top-level domain”).
Adjective
lastminute.com
- (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!)
- 2002, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) (page 381)