gorillion

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English

Etymology

gorilla (arbitrary, used for sound) +‎ -illion

Pronunciation

Noun

gorillion (plural gorillions)

  1. (slang, sometimes humorous, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:zillion
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      The echoes were supposed to be a visual representation of a booming voice pronouncing Jewish surnames as vil - "closed captioning for the Jew-blind," as one anti-Semite put it. "All Jewish surnames echo throughout history," explained the Right Stuff, the blog that hosted the podcast. “The echoes repeat the sad tale as they communicate the emotional lessons of our great white sins, imploring us to Never Forget the 6 GoRillion.” In typical fashion the inventors of the echoes also had their own obscure symbolism for each parenthetical swoosh: the inner parenthess stand for the Jewish subversion of the home and the destruction of the family through "mass-media degeneracy"; the middle parentheses represent the destruction of the nation through mass migration; and the outer parentheses stand for international Jewry and world Zionism