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- noun slang, used hyperbolically A very large, unspecified number (of).
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Examples
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I was astounded to find that a Chief Procurement Officer of a major electrical retailer used the word "squillion" in the CPO Agenda Executive Roundtable this past May in London on budgeting for a wider influence.
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The first few days are already linked up, and he'll continue to add links to this post as he and other film bloggers add to it. io9 says Transformers 2 is a surreal mind fuck in the same spirit of Le Chien Andalou, just with a "squillion" more dollars.
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After work, we drove down to Warwick and picked up Spooky's belated birthday present, a new turntable so that she can begin digitizing the squillion or so pieces of vinyl she has stored at her parents.
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The books that might not sell a squillion copies but are still worthy of publication.
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But after those birdies, I tipped the caddie a squillion dollars and walked off the course thinking what a great joy it was to be alive, he said.
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The books that might not sell a squillion copies but are still worthy of publication.
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I'm sure she would never dream in a squillion years of writing like me.
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I can report that the Call handling centre dealt with 10 squillion enquires this year and all were met within the time frame and so met our targets by 100%.
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This is the final instalment of the trilogy that began with the squillion-selling Man and Boy and continued with the merely hugely bestselling Man and Wife.
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Among the squillion or so options is the choice of lounge chairs in the rear cabin, fully reclining, massaging, and climate controlled.
johnmperry commented on the word squillion
somewhat like zillion
July 19, 2008
bzoooty commented on the word squillion
It doesn't alter the point that Barry made, even if he didn't know he was making it: we have about seven squillion hours' worth of recorded music in here and there's hardly a minute of it that describes how Laura's feeling now.
-Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (1995, pp. 109-11)
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them
-Nick Hornby, About a Boy (1998, p. 179)
November 17, 2009