umpteen

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The first of what would be "umpteen" incidents happened that same night.

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  1. adjective Informal Relatively large but unspecified in number: umpteen reasons; umpteen guests.

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  • There's umpteen-thousand talented screen-writers, waiting for a break, and this crap is getting put out? —  Holidailies 2008
  • She rises at 3 a.m. to be at the school about 4: 30 a.m. and begin the roughly 90-minute task of scrubbing the school's "umpteen" bathrooms. —  DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
  • But this was something we've all heard umpteen times. —  ClickZ News
  • This pattern of cowardice -- insulting the Indian Constitution by setting it aside to allow marauding ruling-party mobs to arson, rape and murder in the interests of short-term political gain - has been repeated umpteen times after the pioneering effort of the Congress in 1984.
  • After umpteen amount of R & D, they ultimately found out that the 'real' reason for the unprecedented heat this month was because of the two 'hotties' of Bollywood: Imran Khan and Kangna Ranaut, who feature on the cover of the current edition of the super-cool magazine People. —  The Financial Express
 

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  1. Slang ump(ty), dash in Morse code (of imitative origin) + -teen (as in thirteen).
 

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