"Gimme a few ___"

The answer

SECS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SECS answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SECS

Every other clue in this collection answered by SECS, most used first.

• Brief moments - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Jiffs - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Min. parts - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Parts of mins. - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Jiffies - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Min. fractions - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Min. divisions - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Moments, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Brief periods, briefly - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Fractions of mins. - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Moments - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Abbreviated moments - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Brief periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Min. components - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Min. segments - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Moments, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Short times, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• A few - SOME, used 188 times
• Quite a few - MANY, used 64 times
• Few and far between - RARE, used 59 times
• More than a few - MANY, used 40 times
• Go a few rounds - SPAR, used 31 times
• "Gimme a break!" - CMON, used 29 times

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