Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make it rain

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: make it rain
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.

verb

To throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.

Example Sentences

"It's time to make it rain, my friend!"
"John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk."
"Get your mayo, sell that yayo, strip clubs make it rain / These thugs play the game, get bucks save that cane"
"I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops."

Etymology

Originates as a slang term for throwing out lots of cash to dancers in strip clubs, as if money is raining down on them. Draws from its roots in rainmaker (“a medicine man who seeks to induce rain; (figuratively) a person having the ability to generate business”).

Inflected Forms

makes it rain (present, singular) making it rain (participle, present) made it rain (participle, past) made it rain (past)

Frequently Paired Words

rainmaking

Questions

What does make it rain mean?: To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
Where does make it rain come from?: Originates as a slang term for throwing out lots of cash to dancers in strip clubs, as if money is raining down on them. Draws from its roots in rainmaker (“a medicine man who seeks to induce rain; (figuratively) a person having the ability to generate business”).

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