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zillion
noun
an almost unimaginably large number US, 1944
One of several invented numbers used to convey a large number; probably coined by Damon Runyon.- I bet a hunnert zillion dollars o’l wilfire cain’t fling me off. (Barney Google and snuffy Smith comic strip). — San Francisco Examiner, 29 July 1951
- The way he explained it to me is that I’m suffering from an inferiority complex on account of my old man having zillions of books around the house and reading like a maniac. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 12, 1957
- Read the little book. It says United flies about sixty zillion people every year and about twenty zillion every day. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 75, 1968
- Man, I’m hip you pretty and pimping a zillion. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 226, 1969
- As I undressed he finally talked about getting wounded and being laid up for so long and the dumb-ass braille lessons and about all the things he had time to think about. “Zillions of things,” he said. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 294, 1977
- It was a zillion times worse than the summer I tried to join Up With People! — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 4, 1978
- And she knew a zillion old jokes her grandfather, an old vaudevillian, taught her. — Pulp Fiction, 1994
- Because there were a zillion DEA guys hanging around the terminal. — Get Shorty, 1995
- Two masters of freedom, playing in a time before their art was corrupted by a zillion cocktail lounge performers[.] — Jerry Maguire, 1996
- [I]t broke down into smaller units, so many zillions of options you could never count them[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 118, 2001
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