dillion

English

Etymology

See -illion.

Noun

dillion (plural dillions)

1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).
   • 1982, Roald Dahl, The BFG:

     'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours. […]

   • 2012, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo:

     He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.

   • 2014, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land:

     You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.