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How to pronounce zilch in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zip, zippo
Type of relative quantity
Has types bugger all, fanny adams, fuck all, nihil, sweet fanny adams


I didn't hear zilch about it.

Examples of zilch

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In any event, after taxes and inflation, that pretty much boils down to zilch.
From the businessweek.com
Savings bonds issued from May 1941 through May 1979 already are earning zilch.
From the post-gazette.com
When it comes to booking accommodation for my young family, five-star means zilch.
From the nzherald.co.nz
For those who know zilch about stocks, it's a space where no question is too basic.
From the courier-journal.com
Clueless kid with zilch knowledge of Monetary policy or Investor's sentiment.
From the economist.com
In areas where the water was clear, like up to 20 feet of visibility, we got zilch.
From the sfgate.com
Rather than wasted on some vanity project that will result in zero, zilch, nothing.
From the guardian.co.uk
It appears like everybody wants to give stuff away for nothing, nada, zilch.
From the latimes.com
The Capitals lost home-ice advantage, but that means almost zilch in hockey.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Nothing: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
  • Zilch is an alternative/industrial rock band formed in 1996 by Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto (formerly in X Japan), Ray McVeigh (formerly in The Professionals), Paul Raven (of Killing Joke), Joey Castillo (of Danzig and Queens of the Stone Age) and I.N.A. (of Hide with Spread Beaver).
  • Nothing; nothing; zero
  • American for a duck. Oh, who are we kidding. They have no idea what a duck is.
  • It is a hand in which there are no cards worth holding.