cha chingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the 1992 movie Wayne's World and by a 1992 advertisement featuring Seth Green.^[1]
The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc..^[2]

発音

• IPA^(key): /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋ

間投詞

cha-ching

1. Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make lots of money.
   • 1998, Media Foundation, chapter I, in Adbusters‎^[1], volume 6, page 49:

     Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.

名詞

cha-ching (複数形 cha-chings)

1. Money, cash.
   • 2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207,

     They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching.

   • 2011, Sylvie Hogg, Frommer′s Italian Islands, unnumbered page:

     […] but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.

動詞

cha-ching (三人称単数 現在形 cha-chings, 現在分詞 cha-chinging, 過去形および過去分詞形 cha-chinged)

1. To make a cash register or slot machine noise.
   • 2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page:

     The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.

2. To make the noise of coins falling.

参照

発音

• IPA: /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/, SAMPA: /tS@"tSIN/

語源

Imitative of the sound of a cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized in 1992 by the movie Wayne's World [1] and by a 1992 advertisement featuring Seth Green [2].

間投詞

cha-ching

1. (米国用法, Australian) Score!; Wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make lots of money.

動詞

cha-ching

1. To make a cash register or slot machine noise; to make the noise of coins falling.