oodles
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of oodles
First recorded in 1865–70; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Inside its sci-fi trappings — space travel, crazy technology, oodles of extraterrestrials — Pixar’s “Elio” is the story of an outsider kid who finds a new family.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Los Angeles signs oodles of talented players, loses them to injury or ineptitude, and replaces them with new talented players.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Or even better, they would spare the victims from being retraumatized by instead reading the reports that already exist in the Epstein files, which include oodles of victim testimony, as well as hard evidence.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2025
Our modern, digitised world generates oodles of it and this place has access to one heck of a lot of it, plenty of it in real time.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025
“Bill is a writer but unlike the rest of us, he has oodles of money.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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