Megabucks

Megabucks

Megabucks is a combination of the prefix "mega-" (meaning "million" or another large amount) and "bucks" (meaning dollars), used to denote a large amount of money.

It can also refer to:


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  • megabucks — meg‧a‧bucks [ˈmegəbʌks] noun [plural] informal a very large amount of money: • It also means your land is worthless, your credit dries up, and you may owe megabucks. megabucks adjective [only before a noun] : • a megabucks deal * * * …   Financial and business terms

  • megabucks — (n.) 1946, originally one million dollars, from MEGA (Cf. mega ) in the scientific sense + slang BUCK (Cf. buck) (n.) dollar. A jocular coinage of U.S. scientists working on expensive atomic research …   Etymology dictionary

  • megabucks — ► PLURAL NOUN informal ▪ a huge sum of money …   English terms dictionary

  • megabucks — n. a lot of money; big bucks. (See also kilobucks.) □ A stereo that size ust cost megabucks. □ Mr. Wilson has megabucks in pharmaceutical stocks …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • megabucks — noun Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency). He is making megabucks with his business venture …   Wiktionary

  • megabucks — meg|a|bucks [ˈmegəbʌks] n [plural] informal a very large amount of money ▪ She s earning megabucks now …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • megabucks — n A lot of money. He made megabucks when he sold his company. 1940s …   Historical dictionary of American slang

  • megabucks — n an enormous amount of money. An Americanism of the 1970s which is now heard elsewhere, including Britain, where bucks remains the suffix although not strictly appropriate. ( Mega was a fashionable prefix of the late 1970s.) He s making… …   Contemporary slang

  • megabucks — a lot of money, thousands of dollars    Her personal computer system cost megabucks. It was very expensive …   English idioms

  • megabucks — noun (plural) informal a large amount of money: She s earning megabucks now …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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