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Mom Minute

(n.) The approximate amount of time it takes for your mom to do something when she says "I'll be there in a minute"

General* conversion rate

1 mom minute= 15 normal minutes

*Please note that conversions vary. Moms may take up to 30 minutes or an hour after declaring their mom minute, and in those rare cases, they actually come in a minute.
Kid: "Hey Mom, can you come help me with my homework?"

Mom: "Yes, just a minute"

Kid: "Oh, ok, I guess that's a mom minute. I'll be back in 15 minutes, I'm gonna go watch some tv while I wait"
Mom Minute by bigducky29 February 22, 2011
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Mom Minute

When your mother talks to an old friends she hasn’t seen in years, she could say “One more minute.” Yet she takes a whole HOUR to wrap up the boring conversation.
Timmy: Mom! We have to get home! It’s a school night, you know. Mom: One more minute and I’ll be done. 1 HOUR LATER Timmy: Mom, that wasn’t a minute. That was a MOM MINUTE.
Mom Minute by ElKaijuKing February 26, 2019
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Mom minutes 

When a mother figure exaggerates the amount of minutes you did or didn't do something. She makes it from the amount of minutes it actually takes and says more, this in itself is it's own antonym. Due to this can be understating or exaggerating something.
Mom: You were supposed to be home 30 minutes ago!

Son: I was supposed to be home ten minutes ago. I don't know why your clock runs on mom minutes.
Mom minutes by Jake145 August 10, 2012
A unit of time that lives between a moment and a minute.
Hang on, I'll be out in just a mominute.
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"After we made the decorations for the party, there was 'scrapnel' all over the floor"
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