big : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians
  

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• noun (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
  

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• noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
  big bang theory.
  

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• noun large bloodsucking bug
  cone-nosed bug; conenose; kissing bug; conenose bug.
  

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• noun clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London
  

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• noun a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande
  

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• noun a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife
  

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• noun United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
  Haywood; William Dudley Haywood.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)
  William Tatem Tilden Jr.; Tilden.
  

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• noun a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan
  BLU-82.
  

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• noun a stock exchange in New York
  New York Stock Exchange; NYSE; N. Y. Stock Exchange.
  
• noun the large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange
  

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• noun an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy
  
• noun an older brother
  

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• noun rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed
  Eptesicus fuscus.
  

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• noun a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
  big bucks; megabucks; pile; bundle.
  
  • she made a bundle selling real estate
  • they sank megabucks into their new house

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• noun commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies
  
  • big business is growing so powerful it is difficult to regulate it effectively

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• noun a very wealthy or powerful businessman
  business leader; tycoon; magnate; baron; power; king; mogul; top executive.
  
  • an oil baron

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• noun any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
  cat.
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish
• noun anything of great importance or consequence
  

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• noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
  Wagon; Wain; Charles's Wain; Plough; Dipper.
  
• noun elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines)
  chute-the-chute; roller coaster.
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun large animals that are hunted for sport
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun street names for heroin
  skag; nose drops; thunder; hell dust; smack; scag.
  

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• noun points to the minutes
  minute hand.
  

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• noun the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)
  majors; major league.
  

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• noun a member of a major-league baseball team
  major leaguer.
  

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• noun a stout branching annual with large yellow to orange flower heads; Mexico and Central America
  Tagetes erecta; Aztec marigold; African marigold.
  

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• noun a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
  big bucks; megabucks; pile; bundle.
  
  • she made a bundle selling real estate
  • they sank megabucks into their new house

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• noun aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves
  blue sage; Seriphidium tridentatum; Artemisia tridentata.
  

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• noun scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results
  

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• noun hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
  Carya laciniosa; big shellbark; king nut; big shagbark; king nut hickory.
  

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• noun hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
  Carya laciniosa; big shellbark; king nut; big shagbark; king nut hickory.
  

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• noun hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
  Carya laciniosa; big shellbark; king nut; big shagbark; king nut hickory.
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun a river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa
  

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• noun an older sister
  

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• noun one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment
  high roller.
  
  • the last of the big spenders

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• noun a display of force or power
  
  • speak softly but carry a big stick

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• noun a picturesque coastal region of California to the south of San Francisco
  

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• noun the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment)
  

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• noun the first largest innermost toe
  hallux; great toe.
  

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• noun a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
  circus tent; top; round top.
  
  • he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent
  • they had the big top up in less than an hour

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• noun extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
  Sequoia gigantea; Sierra redwood; giant sequoia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sequoia Wellingtonia.
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
  big bang theory.
  

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• adjective satellite having a prominent belly
  great bellied.
  

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Big"-bel`lied adjective

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1. Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

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• adjective satellite having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh
  

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• noun smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
  black hickory; Carya tomentosa; white-heart hickory; mockernut; mockernut hickory.
  

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• adjective satellite marked by a large or well-developed chest
  chesty.
  
  • he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed

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• noun douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long
  Pseudotsuga macrocarpa; big-cone douglas fir.
  

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• noun douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long
  Pseudotsuga macrocarpa; big-cone douglas fir.
  

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• noun large carnivorous Old World bat with very large ears
  Megaderma lyra.
  

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• noun of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
  bigeye scad; Selar crumenophthalmus; goggle-eye.
  

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• noun maple of western North America having large 5-lobed leaves orange in autumn
  Acer macrophyllum; Oregon maple.
  

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• adjective satellite having broad shoulders
  square-shouldered; broad-shouldered.
  
  • big-shouldered and heavy-armed

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• adjective satellite very expensive
  high-ticket.
  
  • big-ticket items like cars and furs
  • a big-ticket government program

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• noun aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America
  large tooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; large-toothed aspen; Canadian aspen; Populus grandidentata.
  

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• noun small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves
  Prunus mexicana.
  

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Big"-wigged` adjective

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1. characterized by pomposity of manner. Eng.

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• to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.

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• adjective satellite (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
  snotty; snot-nosed; bigheaded; stuck-up; persnickety; uppish; snooty.
  
  • a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage
  • they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety

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• noun bat of western North America having extremely large ears
  Plecotus townsendi.
  

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