Bazillion vs Billion - What's the difference?
bazillion | billion |
(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
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A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
As a noun bazillion
is (slang|hyperbole) an unspecified large number (of).bazillion
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- I wouldn't sleep with him in a bazillion years, but I'm not scared of him.
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* See also .billion
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