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

During the mid-1970s those companies, and others, made headlines almost weekly as sensational disclosures surfaced about their roles in paying megabuck bribes to high foreign officials to clinch deals.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John