megabuck
nounEtymology Back-formation from megabucks.
1
Informal A million dollars.
- the owner of a large hosiery factory believed that 100000 dozen pairs of nylon hose worth about one megabuck were disappearing from his plant every year.1991, Walter Theodore Federer, Statistics and Society: Data Collection and Interpretation, page 98:
- The plan includes a $500,000 cap on compensation for senior officials and new restrictions on other kinds of megabuck payouts, like severance pay.2009 February 6, James Barron, “Proposal of a $500,000 Salary Cap Raises the Question: What to Do?”, in New York Times: