beaucoup

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1. LouisianaUSespeciallyinformalMuch, many, a lot of.

   You know that cost beaucoup bucks!

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   “I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”

   1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 282

   Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."

   1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93

   Then he'd have to be relieved of command. Which you could do, Doctor, but it's beaucoup trouble if you're wrong.

   1987 November 2, Michael Halperin, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “Lonely Among Us”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), production code 108

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1. An abundance.

   Alongside the road with holes in my soul and my shoes / And beaucoups of blues

   1970, “Beaucoups of Blues”, in Buzz Rabin (lyrics), Beaucoups of Blues, performed by Ringo Starr

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1. not comparableIn abundance.