minuteman:
(plural: ‘minutemen’; pronunciation: the letters ‘mi’ rhyme with the letters ‘mi’ in “mini” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a minuteman of the past
an American militiaman who promised to be ready for fighting in a minute’s notice (i.e. he would take only a minute to get ready to fight which means ‘always ready to fight’) before and during American Revolutionary War in the United States,
modern day minutemen
Sanders was a legendary minuteman whose stories have been told all over the country.
In the present war against illegal immigrants crossing over borders, mostly from Mexico, there is an organisation called The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Arizona state, which has several law-abiding ordinary citizens calling themselves ‘Minuteman Volunteers’, helping the police in controlling the illegal border crossings.
Modern day minutemen are those ordinary people who are willing to sacrifice their wealth and comfort for safeguarding the ‘good old American way of life’ from the illegal immigrants and the government policies that support immigration laws.
(a Minuteman missile)
