hojillion

English

Etymology

See +‎ -illion

Noun

hojillion (plural hojillions)

1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).
   • 2012, Rebecca Branstetter, The School Psychologist's Survival Guide:

     One of my school psychologist friends called the world of special education assessment the Department of Redundancy Department because you end up writing the same thing in a bunch of different places, requiring parents to sign virtually the same thing over and over, and then filing everything in hojillion different places. (A hojillion is somewhere between a million and infinity.)

   • 2013, Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes:

     Okay, so apparently there's like a hojillion generations of gods in Japan. In fact, there are so many generations that it takes seven of them JUST TO GET US TO THE DUDES WHO CREATE THE EARTH.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.