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(slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion..
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.
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.
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?
"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.
Use gajillion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gajillion means (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion..
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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.
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