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beaucoup

Syllables: beau·coup/boʊˈkuː//ˈbuˌku/

beaucoup determiner: much, many, a lot of.

Determiner

beaucoup

  1. (Louisiana, US, especially, informal) Much, many, a lot of.
    • You know that cost beaucoup bucks!
    • “I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 282

Noun

beaucoup (plural beaucoups)

  1. An abundance.
    • Alongside the road with holes in my soul and my shoes / And beaucoups of blues1970, “Beaucoups of Blues”, in Buzz Rabin (lyrics), Beaucoups of Blues, performed by Ringo Starr

Adverb

beaucoup (not comparable)

  1. In abundance.

beaucoup meaning in Tamil

beaucoup in Tamil

எண்ணிறந்த

Examples of beaucoup in a sentence

  • Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:
  • Which you could do, Doctor, but it's beaucoup trouble if you're wrong.1987 November 2, Michael Halperin, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “Lonely Among Us”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 7...

Forms of beaucoup

Determiner
alternative formboco
alternative formboku
alternative formboocoo
alternative formbookoo
alternative formbuku
Noun
pluralbeaucoups

Origin of beaucoup

Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ was influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant.

Words that rhyme with beaucoup

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Questions about beaucoup

What does beaucoup mean?
Beaucoup means much, many, a lot of.
What is beaucoup in Tamil?
Beaucoup in Tamil is எண்ணிறந்த. See Beaucoup meaning in Tamil.
How do you use beaucoup in a sentence?
Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow.
What part of speech is beaucoup?
Beaucoup can be a determiner, a noun or an adverb.
How do you pronounce beaucoup?
Beaucoup is pronounced /boʊˈkuː/.

Words near beaucoup in the dictionary

  1. Beauchamp
  2. Beauchemin
  3. Beauchemins
  4. Beauchene skull
  5. Beauchene skulls
  6. beaucoup
  7. beaucoups
  8. Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre
  9. Beaudet
  10. Beaudets
  11. Beaudette

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beaucoup (page history and authors); beaucoup (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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