Cha-ching
intj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Money, cash.
"2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207, They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching."
- 1 To make a cash register or slot machine noise. intransitive
"The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure."
- 2 To make the noise of coins falling. intransitive
- 1 Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.
"Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs."
Example
More examples"Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs."
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
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