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megabucks
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
megabucks
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's costing me megabucks to get the car fixed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she won't let her megabucks prize change her life ... it's only worth £160.30p.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
megabucks

1946, originally "one million dollars," from mega- in the scientific sense + slang buck (n.) "dollar." A jocular coinage of U.S. scientists working on expensive atomic research.

Wiktionary
megabucks

n. 1 (context informal English) Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency). 2 (plural of megabuck English)

WordNet
megabucks

n. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, big money]

Wikipedia
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:

  • These US lottery games:
    • Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont: Tri-State Megabucks Plus
    • Massachusetts Megabucks Doubler
    • Oregon Megabucks
    • Wisconsin Megabucks
    • Megabucks Giveaway, a former Michigan TV lottery game show

Other:

  • The Mega Bucks, wrestling team consisting of Ted DiBiase and André the Giant in the unsanctioned Million Dollar Championship
  • Megabucks (slot machine), a brand of linked progressive jackpot slot machines
  • a fictional currency in the Illuminati card game

Usage examples of "megabucks".

I'm going to let Project Porcupine spend megabucks like waterbut I've got to justify it to directors and stockholders.

If I run it into the ground, the courts will boost me out I’m going to let Project Porcupine spend megabucks like water—but I’ve got to justify it to directors and stockholders.

If I run it into the ground, the courts will boost me out I'm going to let Project Porcupine spend megabucks like water -- but I've got to justify it to directors and stockholders.

That could well be where those megabucks spent on the West End came from.