umpteen meaning

Adjective: umpteen  'úmp'teen

1. Innumerable but many
   - umteen [non-standard]

See also: many

Encyclopedia: Umpteen

[American slang]
mod. many; innumerable.
• I've told you umpteen times not to feed the cat right out of the can.
• There are umpteen ways to do this right. Can you manage to do one of them?

[British slang]
Adj. Many, a lot of. E.g."There was umpteen colours to choose from.”

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1. umpteen times i gave up when people turned a deaf ear to their wrongs
2. the umpteen thousand pt compact measurement amplifiers that have been proven in service guarantee the high degree of accuracy and signal quality
3. Dancing has been going on around Baptist campuses for umpteen years.
4. The in-the-crease rule has changed umpteen times.
5. She sounded like she'd made this speech umpteen times.