tons n.
a very large amount, a great deal.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 2: [It] must at various times have cost tons of money. | ||
Marvel III:59 19: ‘Any shooting?’ ‘Heaps!’ ‘Fishing?’ ‘Tons!’. | ||
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 29 July 3/2: I will show you tons of cases / Where there’s gells upon the town. | ||
Madame Prince 160: ‘Had she money?’ ‘Tons!’. | ||
Ulysses 707: And the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets. | ||
Night and the City 125: Oh, he’s got tons [i.e. of money] [...] he’s a song-writer. | ||
(con. 1912) George Brown’s Schooldays 59: My people have got tons of tin. | ||
They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 88: We got tons o’ room. | ||
Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 111: Crawling with rich cockies in flash cars. Tons of dough round the place. | ||
Faggots 258: ‘You’ve been to Fire Island!’ ‘Tons.’ ‘You been to The Meat Rack?’ ‘Tons.’. | ||
London Fields 120: Guy might drive for ever at a prudent thirty-five, with tons of gas. | ||
Trainspotting 11: Course she is. She’s telt us tons ay times. | ||
Cartoon City 3: Pat had gone to England to work on sites, earn money and ‘sleep with tons of women.’. |