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[ noun ] a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)

Used in print

(Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)

Just when it seems baseball might be losing its grip on the masses up pops heroics to start millions of tongues to wagging .

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

Rather , it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate , ethical medical treatment of serious diseases .

His plunder is therefore far higher - running into hundreds of millions .

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

`` E._B. '' compared John_Brown to Moses in_that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression .

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