determiner
(informal) very many:
I've told this story umpteen times.
umpteen pronoun:
Umpteen of them all arrived at once.
umpteenth determiner:
'This is crazy,' she told herself for the umpteenth time (= she had done it many times before).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for umpteen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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