Josiah
Senior Member
- Location
- 50 miles east of Cincinnati, OH
- warp speed
- DEFINITION
noun
: the highest possible speed
- EXAMPLES
When Mario saw Helen enter the elevator, he grabbed his laptop and vaulted down the stairs at warp speed to get to the meeting room ahead of her.
"You may have noticed that time, which is fleeting in the best of circumstances, has a way of moving at warp speed when you reach a certain age." — Ed Gebhart, Delaware County Daily Times,
Origin:
1970s: popularized by the television series Star Trek (originally referring to a faster-than-light speed attained by a spaceship traveling in a space warp).