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gajillion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

See -illion.

Meanings

1. (excessive, slang) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
   • 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? 2015 March 19, Paul R. La Monica, “Starbucks can do more than #RaceTogether”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:
   • "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. 2019, Dakota Cassidy, Witched at Birth:
   • 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 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2018:
   • 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. 2014, Adrian Fogelin, The Sorta Sisters:

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