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cha-ching

/tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/

cha-ching interjection: score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.

Interjection

  1. (informal, slang) Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.
    • Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.1998, Media Foundation, chapter I, in Adbusters, volume 6, page 49

Noun

cha-ching (plural cha-chings)

  1. (informal, slang) Money, cash.
    • They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching.2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207
    • […]but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.2011, Sylvie Hogg, Frommer′s Italian Islands, unnumbered page

Verb

cha-ching (third-person singular simple present cha-chings, present participle cha-chinging, simple past and past participle cha-chinged)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To make the noise of a cash register or slot machine.
    • The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page
  2. (informal, intransitive) To make the noise of coins falling.

Forms of cha-ching

Interjection
alternative formchiching
alternative formchi-ching
alternative formchaching
alternative formca-ching
alternative UKka-ching
alternative UKkerching
Noun
pluralcha-chings
Verb
third-person singular presentcha-chings
present participlecha-chinging
past participlecha-chinged
pastcha-chinged

Origin of cha-ching

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.

Words that rhyme with cha-ching

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Questions about cha-ching

What does cha-ching mean?
Cha-ching means score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.
What part of speech is cha-ching?
Cha-ching can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cha-ching?
Cha-ching is pronounced /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/.

Words near cha-ching in the dictionary

  1. cha-cha-cha
  2. cha-cha-chas
  3. cha-chaed
  4. cha-chaing
  5. cha-chas
  6. cha-ching
  7. cha-chinged
  8. cha-chinging
  9. cha-chings
  10. cha-om
  11. Cha-pu

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