gazillion
- noun
- /ɡəˈzɪljən/
- Slang
- So then, a big corporation down in Texas... offered them a gazillion dollars for it.
Like no, I have like gazillions of old tests.
- Like no, I have like gazillions of old tests.
- And we've seen gazillions of examples, I think already in our in our relatively brief time reading of thaw verb subject, right.
Examples
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I've tried a gazillion different recipes for that dish but none have turned out quite right.
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All right, boys, we've got a gazillion dollars waiting for us in the Bahamas.
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See if he wants to give you a gazillion dollars or something.
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And we're a gazillion miles from L.A.
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All I'm saying is that when you win, you get like a gazillion dollars.
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Shouldn't I have a gazillion followers on all the big social media platforms?
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He's got, like, a gazillion hit songs, and he's super famous.
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Obama won this debate; he was articulate and a gazillion times clearer than the last time.
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Evolution says that man crawled out of the slime a gazillion years ago and has been improving ever since.
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For my Graphic Design class, I've drawn probably 135 gazillion pictures of a compass.
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Synonyms
A very large number used to mean a lot without an exact count
Many people or things counted together
A very large, not exact number used to say there are many
A very large, not exact number used to show exaggeration
A very large number of things or people
A very large number that people use to show exaggeration
A very large number that people use to show a lot
A very large, not exact number people use to mean many
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
A very large not exact number people use to mean a huge amount
A very large number with no exact amount, said as a joke
A made-up very large number that people use to mean a lot of things
A joking made-up number meaning a very large amount
A very large number used to mean a huge, not exact amount
A very large amount used to show that something is extreme
An amount that is large but not exactly known
A very large amount of something
A very large amount said in a rude, informal way
A joking phrase used to say a very large amount or level
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word gazillion is a playful, made-up number formed from familiar million and the silly zillion, and it means 'a huge, unspecified number'. So people say gazillion when they want to exaggerate and mean 'very many' rather than give an exact number.