decamillion

plural decamillions

1. uncommonTen million.

   Were his fortunes to evaporate and leave him completely broke, Xizor would still not sell this plant, not if somebody offered him a decamillion credits.

   1996, Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 201

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   You have no life, and so you do not know what it means to deny what has been the meaning of your life, for if you’ve been wrong, mark you now, if you’ve been wrong, then what of the decamillion of graves, and so you’re committed, you’re committed wholly, do you understand? and each action you perform can only confirm you further in your political position or what I would now call the lack of one, and there’s only the nightmare of yourself if you’re wrong, […]

   1951, Norman Mailer [pseudonym; Nachem Malech Mailer], Barbary Shore, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Co. Inc., page 241

   And this more fabulous than invalid Broadway was already getting ready for another upbeat year with a decamillion-plus advance sale for a musical that isn’t expected to open until April 1991.

   1990 September 1, Otis L[ove] Guernsey Jr., “Editor’s Note”, in Otis L. Guernsey Jr., Jeffrey Sweet, editors, The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989–1990: Featuring the Ten Best Plays of the Season, New York, N.Y.: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, →ISBN, page vii

   Drawing on Gerald D. Nash’s historiography, [James C.] Work rehearses the necessary background—the so-called closing of the frontier, the migration of decamillions of people into the twentieth-century West, then the subsequent anomie, “disjunction” among the cultures involved, and environmental devastation—and arrives at a consequence: the utter difficulty, for contemporary writers acutely aware of what has transpired, of writing about the “West of ‘once upon a time.’”

   1996, Michael L. Johnson, “Rewriters of the Purple Sage, Part 1: Trails to New Western Literature”, in New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 127

   Nearly 300 million computers worldwide installed Windgazer 99 beginning June 8, 1999. Decamillions of those users worshipped the Windgazer 99 screen saver as a gift from the heavens.

   1999, Edwin Black, Format C:, Cambridge, Mass.: Brookline Books, →ISBN, page 213

   Even coming from my conditioning of nihilism and dread, without the comfort of simple beliefs, aware of awesome human evil and hatred, of wars that kill decamillions, I can be, I will be, an expression of contentless faith.

   1999, Paul R. Fleischman, “Why I Sit”, in Karma and Chaos: New and Collected Essays on Vipassana Meditation, New Delhi: New Age Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 21

   Synonyms: crore