Definition of "sec"

sec

/sɛk/

noun
plural sec or secs
1. (colloquial) Second, 1⁄60 of a minute.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of second (“short indeterminate period of time”).
  Quotations
  And the sloping of the shoulder / From the slender shapely neck / Makes you long to come behind her and to hold her / Just a sec.
  1881 August 27, “In Church”, in Supplement to the Manchester Weekly Times, Manchester, England, page 8
3. (colloquial, politics) Clipping of secretary.