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- noun Plural form of
squillion .
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Examples
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She even boasted in her blog that the couple was still spending "squillions" on a new home.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Officer" Ashley Unwin, were spending "squillions" on a new home.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Meanwhile, pop singer Justin Bieber's squillions of rabid fans have put his name in lights just as shiny as the Christmas ones he turned on at Westfield shopping centre this week, in between contesting a paternity allegation from a fan claiming her baby is the result of their 30-second post-gig shag.
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It's hard to narrow it down because there are so many films – squillions of films – that have had a big impact on me.
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It didn't bother us that the author Lisa Unwin is the wife of Ashley Unwin, a bigwig at PricewaterhouseCoopers and that they subsist on squillions.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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The book tracks his plans to use the looming crash of a bank and the subsequent financial crisis to make squillions of pounds.
Character Based Writing: Lessons Learned From Sebastian Faulks | The Creative Penn 2010
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JK Rowling has made squillions out of her magical creation, Harry Potter, and good luck to her.
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Work out how many squillions you are going to spend on this farce, then 2.
AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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• On the subject of Tory peers, imagine our distress on discovering from the Sunday Times that the shadowy figure behind Foundation X – the secret cabal who promised the government squillions to help Britain out of decline and penury – is in fact a former haulage contractor from Cheshire.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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Obviously this sort of thing works, but if Cameron had a few big ideas, a sense of passion, some kind of philosophical underpinning that was as obvious as, for example, "Thatcherism", you might not need to spend squillions on ex-patriot PR Men.
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