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  big game

  noun

  large wild animals, especially when hunted for sport.
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  Big Game

  noun

  Usually the Big Game an alternate name for the Super Bowl, used in advertising by brands that are not official sponsors and therefore do not have permission to use the trademarked name of the NFL championship game.

big game

¹ American  

[big geym] / ˈbɪg ˈgeɪm /

noun

1. large wild animals, especially when hunted for sport.

   Expensive vacation packages to hunt big game like leopards or elephants in Africa are marketed almost exclusively to wealthy foreign tourists.

2. large fish, as tuna and marlin, when sought by deep-sea anglers.

   Participants in the sport fishing tournament regularly return to shore with big game exceeding 200 pounds.

3. a major objective, especially one that involves risk.

   The merger shows their commitment to the big game, in a market where half measures just won’t pay off.

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Big Game ² American  

[big geym] / ˈbɪg ˈgeɪm /

noun

Football.

1. Usually the Big Game an alternate name for the Super Bowl, used in advertising by brands that are not official sponsors and therefore do not have permission to use the trademarked name of the NFL championship game.

   The best time to buy a new television is in late January, during sales promotions for the Big Game.

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big game British  

noun

1. large animals that are hunted or fished for sport

2. informal the objective of an important or dangerous undertaking

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Etymology

Origin of big game

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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“Doing this every day is what matters, but I think this is a big game for us.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Whereas Tony talks a big game, squeezing Japanese words like boketto — the art of doing nothing — into conversation, Banderas shows us how to simply do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Andy got hurt in the big game of reality.”

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

While he has talked a big game about adding potentially another five seats, that may just be impossible.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

From his carefully constructed hide in the wood three hundred metres away, Darwin Bonaparte, the Feely Corporation’s most expert big game photographer had watched the whole proceedings.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

It’s a portrait of a team assembled from spare parts and one generational talent that somehow made it all the way to the Big Game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Xfinity’s first-ever Big Game bid utilizes de-aging software to bring Jurassic Park stars Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill back to the ’90s.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026

Many snack and beverage brands from PepsiCo are also confirmed advertisers at the Big Game.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Relax and enjoy the Big Game without worrying about what it means for your portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026

The sensations attributed to divers on spring-boards, leading ladies on opening nights, and lumpy, husky young men on the day of the Big Game, crowded through her.

From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald