gajillionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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gajillion (plural gajillions)

1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
   • 2014, Adrian Fogelin, The Sorta Sisters:

     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.

   • 2015 March 13, Ben Brumfield, “You may be your germs: Microbe genes slipped into human DNA, study says”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 13 January 2018:

     We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.

   • 2015 March 19, Paul R. La Monica, “Starbucks can do more than #RaceTogether”, in CNN Business‎, archived from the original on 5 June 2023:

     Starbucks wants to sell a gajillion lattes and Frappuccinos. But it also wants to make the world a better place. What's wrong with that exactly?

   • 2019, Dakota Cassidy, Witched at Birth:

     "You like Miss Winnie, don't you, Uncle Ben? Because I like Miss Winnie a gajillion times." Ben's chuckle floated to her ears. "I like Miss Winnie a gajillion times, too." Winnie hid her face in her shoulder as the hot sun beat down on her and she was overwhelmed with emotion. A gajillion was a lot of like. But she was sure she liked Ben and Lola a gajillion times more.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.