Meaning & use

Bookoo

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(informal, US slang) A great deal of; a large amount of.

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He said he had bookoo problems to sort out before the move.

The soldiers joked about having bookoo free time once the mission ended.

A note on using this word

Bookoo is an Americanized spelling of the French word 'beaucoup' (much, many), picked up by American troops in France and Vietnam and carried into informal US English.

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a lot ofplenty of

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