megabuck

American  

[meg-uh-buhk] / ˈmɛg əˌbʌk /

noun

Informal.

1. one million dollars.

2. megabucks, very large sums of money.

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megabuck British  

/ ˈmɛɡəˌbʌk /

noun

1. slang

   1. a million dollars

   2. ( as modifier )

      a megabuck movie

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Etymology

Origin of megabuck

First recorded in 1945–50; mega- + buck ¹

Example Sentences

We stopped by a few of these “cities of the dead,” taking in the stately, megabuck monuments, before visiting the haunting, hidden-away Holt Cemetery in the Navarre neighborhood.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2019

"True, there is no megabuck advance," she admits.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013

Such a megabuck scale is foreign to the most colorful of the can pickers, the loners who scrounge through garbage cans around picnic grounds, sports arenas and office buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Government borrowing weighs heavily on credit markets already strained by brisk demand for business loans, including the huge sums to finance megabuck corporate mergers like that between Du Pont and Conoco.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Oh—well Rick is going to win a megabuck."

From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John