cha-ching
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the 1992 movie Wayne's World and by a 1992 advertisement featuring Seth Green.[1]
The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Rally's Hamburgers, Inc.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃəˈtʃɪŋ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Interjection
Noun
cha-ching (plural cha-chings)
- Money, cash.
- 2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207,
- They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching.
- 2011, Sylvie Hogg, Frommer′s Italian Islands, unnumbered page,
- […] but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.
- 2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207,
Verb
cha-ching (third-person singular simple present cha-chings, present participle cha-chinging, simple past and past participle cha-chinged)
- To make a cash register or slot machine noise.
- 2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page,
- The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.
- 2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page,
- To make the noise of coins falling.
References
- "biography of Seth Green" on IMDB
- 2005, Johnny Acton, The Ideas Companion: Crafty Copyrights, Tricky Trademarks and Peerless Patents, page 138.
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