[ noun ] a large number or amount <noun.quantity> made lots of new friendsshe amassed stacks of newspapers
carangid \carangid\ n. any fish of the family {Carangidae}, including the {cavallas}, {jacks}, {pompanos} and {scads}. [WordNet 1.5]
The Voyager workload is divided among 157 scientists and scads of graduate students, who work on 11 teams corresponding to the spacecraft's 11 main groups of instruments.
There may be scads of money in Japan, but there is precious little venture capital.
These scads are mackerels, no matter what they're called.