gigajillion

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English

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Etymology

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From giga- +‎ jillion.

Noun

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gigajillion (plural gigajillions)

  1. (informal, humorous) An enormously large number; arbitrarily many
    • 1988 February 5, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      On the other hand, a single snow crystal contains perhaps 100 million molecules, which can be arranged in a gigajillion different ways.