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zillion

zil·lion

UK/ˈzɪljən/ US/ˈzɪljʌn/ uncommon slang

adjective

1.

very large indeterminate number

  • “a zillion people were there”
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Origin

See -illion. An arbitrary coinage, appearing by 1916, on analogy of million, billion, trillion.

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