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zilch definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]

Merriam Webster's

adjective or noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1966 zero, nothing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. esp. US sl. nothing. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. uncert.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Zilch means nothing. (INFORMAL) At the moment these shares are worth zilch. = nothing PRON

Moby Thesaurus

aught, cipher, goose egg, insignificancy, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nobody, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, nullity, thing of naught, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero