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1. A large number or amount
   "made tons of new friends";
   - dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs [N. Amer], scads [N. Amer], lashings [Brit], many, masses [Brit]

1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
   - short ton, net ton
    
2. A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
   - long ton, gross ton
    
3. (informal) a large number or quantity
   - shedload [Brit], truckload, gob [N. Amer], bucket, bucketload
    
4. [Brit] (informal) one hundred; a speed of 100 mph, 100 pounds, score of 100, etc.

Sounds like: ton, tun, tons, tuns

Type of: avoirdupois unit, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

Part of: kiloton

Encyclopedia: Tons