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gajillion

gajillion noun: an unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.

Noun

gajillion (plural gajillions)

  1. (excessive, slang) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
    • 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

Examples of gajillion in a sentence

  • We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them.2015 March 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN, archived from the original...
  • Starbucks wants to sell a gajillion lattes and Frappuccinos.2015 March 19, Paul R. La Monica, “Starbucks can do more than #RaceTogether”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:
  • Because I like Miss Winnie a gajillion times." Ben's chuckle floated to her ears.2019, Dakota Cassidy, Witched at Birth:

Forms of gajillion

pluralgajillions

Origin of gajillion

See -illion.

Questions about gajillion

What does gajillion mean?
Gajillion means an unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
How do you use gajillion in a sentence?
We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them.
What part of speech is gajillion?
Gajillion is a noun.
What is the plural of gajillion?
The plural of gajillion is gajillions.

Words near gajillion in the dictionary

  1. Gajewski
  2. Gajewskis
  3. gaji
  4. gajiao
  5. gajica
  6. gajillion
  7. gajillions
  8. gajillionth
  9. Gajjar
  10. Gajjars
  11. gajo

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