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megabucks

noun

megabucks is a noun meaning “Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-G-A-B-U-C-K-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does megabucks mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalCollectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency).

    He is making megabucks with his business venture.

  2. 2

    plural of megabuck (a form of megabuck)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce megabucks?

    Megabucks has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is megabucks?

    Megabucks appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does megabucks come from?

    From mega- + bucks.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).