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noun Informal .
an influential or important person: a big wheel in business.
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Origin of big wheel First recorded in 1905–10
Words nearby big wheel big toe ,
big top ,
big tree ,
biguanide ,
big up ,
big wheel ,
big White Chief ,
bigwig ,
Bihar ,
Bihar and Orissa ,
Bihari
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Words related to big wheel effective ,
forceful ,
important ,
influential ,
powerful ,
significant ,
big cheese ,
big fish ,
big gun ,
big shot ,
bigwig ,
dignitary ,
fat cat ,
heavy-hitter ,
high-muck-a-muck ,
mogul ,
nabob ,
notable ,
somebody
How to use big wheel in a sentence They all drove little cars with great big wheel s, and there was no room for their feet.
Flying across the sand like a four-wheeled rocket, the first fiberglass dune buggy was sleek, stylish and a little whimsical, a small car with big wheel s and a tangerine-red paint job.
In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
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.
I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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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British Dictionary definitions for big wheel
noun
informal an important person
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