gajillion

English

Etymology

See -illion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gajillion (plural gajillions)

  1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
    • 2014, Adrian Fogelin, The Sorta Sisters:
      When Anna gets home from school, Cody is sitting on the step in front of the purple door, juggling his knees. "Ben and Cass walked by a gajillion minutes ago. What took you so long?"
      A gajillion minutes? Really?" Anna had let the others get ahead, but she never lost sight of them.
      "Okay, maybe only half a gajillion," he admits.
    • 2015 March 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN‎[1]:
      We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.
    • 2015 March 19, Paul R. La Monica, “Starbucks can do more than #RaceTogether”, in CNN Business‎[2]:
      Starbucks wants to sell a gajillion lattes and Frappuccinos. But it also wants to make the world a better place. What's wrong with that exactly?
    • 2019, Dakota Cassidy, Witched at Birth:
      "You like Miss Winnie, don't you, Uncle Ben? Because I like Miss Winnie a gajillion times." Ben's chuckle floated to her ears. "I like Miss Winnie a gajillion times, too." Winnie hid her face in her shoulder as the hot sun beat down on her and she was overwhelmed with emotion. A gajillion was a lot of like. But she was sure she liked Ben and Lola a gajillion times more.

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