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verb

Australian informal to boast about (oneself)

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Words nearby big-note

big name, bigness, big noise, bignonia, bignoniaceous, big-note, big of one, big on, big one, bigorexia, bigot

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How to use big-note in a sentence

In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
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Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
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There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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Big Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.
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