passel

passel
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Informal. An indeterminately great amount or number: jillion, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion. Informal: bushel, gob1 (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, peck2, scad (often used in plural), slew, wad, zillion. See BIG.

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