jillion
/ˈdʒɪljən
/cardinal number informal, chiefly North American
An extremely large number: they ran jillions of ads...
- Why is he telling us that his jillions of readers have a question?
- Here on the Front Range, we get jillions of the little guys every spring.
- When you compare it to previous wars, the Second World War, the Vietnam War, a jillion other wars, civilian casualties were very low.
Origin
1940s: fanciful formation on the pattern of billion and million.
Rhymes
- standing on one's head
- standing order
- standing ovation
- standing part
- Standing Rock
- standing room
- standing stone
- standing wave
- stand in the way of
- stand in with
- standish
- Standish, Myles
- stand of arms
- stand of colours
- stand off
- stand-off half
- stand-offish
- stand-offishly
- stand-offishness
- stand oil
- stand on
- stand on ceremony
- stand one's ground
- stand on me
- stand on one's dignity