Definition of "wait-a-bit" [wait•-a-bit]

• Any of several plants having sharp, often hooked thorns. Also called wait-a-minute. (noun)

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• "I did neither; I enjoy a good performance as well as the next licentious rascal, and never mind playing wait-a-bit with a coquette who knows her business."
• "We were an odd pair of scallywags to look at, but as South African as a wait-a-bit bush."
• "A jungle of mimosa, ebony, and “wait-a-bit” thorn lies between the Chicova flats and the cultivated plain, on which stand the villages of the chief, Chitora."