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Umpteen

det, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    innumerable but many wordnet
Determiner
  1. 1
    Relatively large but unspecified in number. informal

    "She's taking umpteen friends with her to the party."

Etymology

From ump (“colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen. Unrelated to ump as in "umpire", simply a mnemonic rhyming aid.

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