ˈbig shot
1Big Shot — is a slang term meaning important or influential person , and is commonly used to describe people such as VIPs, executives, business magnates or media moguls. Big Shot can refer to:Fiction*Big Shot Comics, a 1940s comic book series. *Big Shot… …
2big\ shot — • big cheese • big gun • big shot • big wheel • big wig noun An important or influential person. Elmer is a big shot in the State Assembly. Compare: big cheese …
3big shot — UK US noun [C] (also big noise) INFORMAL ► a person or an organization with a lot of power or influence: »He is trying to become a big shot in the mortgage business …
4big shot — big shots N COUNT A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization. [INFORMAL] He s a big shot in Chilean politics …
5big shot — n informal someone who has a lot of power or influence in a company or an area of business ▪ His father s a big shot and he thinks he is, too …
6big´-shot´ — big shot, Slang. an important person. –big´ shot´, adjective …
7big shot — [n] important person big cheese*, big gun*, big wheel*, bigwig*, celebrity, dignitary, heavy hitter*, heavyweight*, mogul, personage, somebody, VIP; concept 423 …
8big shot — important person, 1929, Amer.Eng., from Prohibition era gangster slang; earlier in the same sense was great shot (1861). Ultimately a reference to large type of gunshot …
9big shot — ☆ big shot or big wheel n. Slang a person regarded as important or influential …
10big shot — big ,shot noun count INFORMAL an important person in an organization …
