An informal contraction of 'a lot of,' meaning 'a large amount or number of something.'
Slang contraction combining 'a lot of' into one word. Emerged in casual spoken English and spread through popular culture and informal writing.
'Lotta' represents how people actually talk versus how they write—we compress 'a lot of' into one syllable in speech, and texting made that contraction acceptable in writing. It's linguistic laziness becoming legitimate.
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