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[zil-yuhn] noun, plural -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, adjective Informal.
noun
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an extremely large, indeterminate number.
adjective
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of, pertaining to, or amounting to a zillion.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1930–35; jocular alteration of million, billion, etc.
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zillion (ˈzɪljən)
 
n , pl -lions, -lion
1.  (often plural) an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount: zillions of flies in this camp
 
determiner
2.  a.  amounting to a zillion: a zillion different problems
 b.  (as pronoun): I found a zillion under the sink
 
[C20: on the model of million]

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zillion
1944, arbitrary coinage with no definite numerical value; first recorded in Damon Runyon.
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