English

Noun

squillion ‎(plural squillions)

1. (slang, used hyperbolically) A very large, unspecified number (of).
   • 1974, Fynn, Mister God, This Is Anna, Ballantine Books (2000), ISBN 0345441559, pages 102-103:

     The word million was adequate for most things, billion came in handy on occasions, but if you wanted to use a word for a very, very large number, you just had to invent one. Anna invented one: a squillion.

   • 1990, Terry Pratchett, Eric, page 138:

     You thinks to yourself, ‘There’s a billion, trillion squillion of them, no one’s going to notice.’ But that’s where professionalism comes in, sort of thing.

   • 2004 May 7, Xaonon, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins, Usenet:

     It'll just take a squillion times longer than the age of the universe to happen.

   • 2004 May 8, Noelle S. Alito, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins, Usenet:

     I just ran the numbers and got 1.7 squillion, myself.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:zillion.

See also

• Indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• quillions