GOOGOLPLEX

PRONUNCIATION: (GOO-guhl-pleks)

MEANING: noun: The number 1 followed by a googol number of zeros.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Milton Sirotta (1911-1981), nine-year-old nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner. From googol + -plex as in duplex. Earliest documented use: 1937.
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GOOGOLPLEA - to beg so persistently and tiresomely it feels like forever

GOGOLPLEX - the extraordinately-involved plot of the latest work by the author of Taras Bulba

GOO-GOLF LEX - PGA regulation prohibiting the application of any foreign substance to a golf ball that is in play