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別の表記

• chiching, chi-ching, chaching, ca-ching
• ka-ching, kerching (primarily UK)

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋ

間投詞

cha-ching

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

     Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.

名詞

cha-ching (plural 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 (third-person singular simple present cha-chings, present participle cha-chinging, simple past and past participle cha-chinged)(intransitive)

1. To make the noise of a cash register or slot machine.
   • 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.

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