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noun Informal .
an important or influential person.
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Origin of big shot First recorded in 1905â10
Words nearby big shot big road ,
big-room ,
Big Sandy Creek ,
big science ,
big screen ,
big shot ,
big sister ,
Big Smoke ,
Big Spring ,
big stick ,
big stick diplomacy
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Words related to big shot bigwig ,
dignitary ,
heavyweight ,
mogul ,
big-league ,
big-time ,
high-profile ,
prominent ,
well-known ,
big cheese ,
big fish ,
big gun ,
big kahuna ,
big wheel ,
celebrity ,
fat cat ,
heavy-hitter ,
high-muck-a-muck ,
muck-a-muck ,
nabob
How to use big shot in a sentence Bates would later recall an assistant director of the FBI barging into the case, âa big shot from Los Angeles who doesnât know me from Adam.â
I met someone recently who immediately launched into a 30-second commercial on what a big shot he was, reminding me of a common way of interacting before the pandemic, based on trying to prove your worth based on some external marker of success.
He didnât get going until he made the last like two or three shots â which were big shot s, by the way.
âSheâs the queen of making big shot s,â said Makrigiorgosâs older sister, Tedi, who was one of the few spectators in the bleachers.
Cut the lead I think to six, a couple of times, and they came and hit a big shot .
In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
There was no fighting; a rifle shot now and then from the crests where we saw our fellows clearly.
I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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British Dictionary definitions for big shot
noun
informal an important or influential person
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