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hojillion en · NOUN

Etymology

See -illion.

Meanings

  1. (excessive, slang) An unspecified large number (of).
    • Okay, so apparently there's like a hojillion generations of gods in Japan. In fact, there are so many generations that it takes seven of them JUST TO GET US TO THE DUDES WHO CREATE THE EARTH. 2013, Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes:
    • One of my school psychologist friends called the world of special education assessment the Department of Redundancy Department because you end up writing the same thing in a bunch of different places, requiring parents to sign virtually the same thing over and over, and then filing everything in hojillion different places. (A hojillion is somewhere between a million and infinity.) 2012, Rebecca Branstetter, The School Psychologist's Survival Guide:

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