cha-ching

alternative chiching · alternative chi-ching · alternative chaching · alternative ca-ching · alternative UK ka-ching · alternative UK kerching

1. informalslangScore!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.

   Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.

   1998, Media Foundation, chapter I, in Adbusters, volume 6, page 49

plural cha-chings · alternative chiching · alternative chi-ching · alternative chaching · alternative ca-ching · alternative UK ka-ching · alternative UK kerching

1. informalslangMoney, cash.

   2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207, They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching.

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   […]but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.

   2011, Sylvie Hogg, Frommer′s Italian Islands, unnumbered page

present singular third person cha-chings · participle present cha-chinging · participle past cha-chinged · past cha-chinged · alternative chiching · alternative chi-ching · alternative chaching · alternative ca-ching · alternative UK ka-ching · alternative UK kerching

1. informalintransitiveTo make the noise of a cash register or slot machine.

   The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.

   2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page

2. informalintransitiveTo make the noise of coins falling.