big gun

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nounSlang.
  1. an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.

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How to use big gun in a sentence

  • It was the big gun atrocity of the day for the 24 hours before the Roswell shooting.

  • He is either going to go out in a big gun battle or lay low.

    The Rogue Cop Who Could Get Away | Christine Pelisek | February 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The breakfast hour was enlivened by a continual peppering of small shot from her, varied by a big gun from her father.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • It was the duck board, as much as the rifle and the big gun, which enabled the Canadians to win at Passchendaele last November.

    The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. Cobb
  • Now they were abreast the famous Golden Tower, and a big gun was fired at them; but the shot went wide.

    Fair Margaret | H. Rider Haggard
  • Didn't you bring two gentlemen on board, and 80 didn't one of them want to measure the carriage of the big gun?

  • What to do with his horse was a question, for the report of the big gun would set him crazy.

British Dictionary definitions for big gun

big gun

noun
  1. informal an important or influential person

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