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• bigfoot
  bigfoot

  noun

  a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
• Bigfoot
  Bigfoot

  noun

  a very large, hairy, humanoid creature of legend, reputed to inhabit wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

bigfoot

¹ American  

[big-foot] / ˈbɪgˌfʊt /

noun

• bigfeet,
  plural
• bigfoots
  plural

1. a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. to assert one's authority or influence (over).

   lobbyists bigfooting around the Senate; a reporter bigfooted by a senior correspondent.

Bigfoot ² American  

[big-foot] / ˈbɪgˌfʊt /

Or Big Foot

noun

1. a very large, hairy, humanoid creature of legend, reputed to inhabit wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bigfeet
  plural
• bigfoots
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bigfoot¹

1975–80, after Bigfoot

Origin of Bigfoot²

First recorded in 1960–65; so called from the size of its alleged footprints

Example Sentences

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The commander of ground troops, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, tries to bigfoot him, insisting the attack must go ahead at all costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

In the 2010s, he co-founded Vox to institutionalize this ethos and to bigfoot old-guard media.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023

Once he qualified, the billionaire bigfoot, hardly could have refused to face his competitors.

From Fox News ● Feb. 20, 2020

Rob Lowe says he thought he was going to be killed during an encounter with a bigfoot creature while filming his new A&E; docuseries.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2017

Agent Fiona is about to tell us something when the gray bigfoot steps into the room.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

"Bigfoot exists - at least as a known object that people shape their lives around," said Dr Jamie Lewis, sociologist at Cardiff University.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

In the years since, Glenn said he had spotted various signs of Bigfoot, through unidentified faeces, hoots and animal remains torn apart in ways which would require extreme strength.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

He said he first came face-to-face with a Bigfoot while camping out with a friend in 1992.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Roger Paterson presented his footage to America in a traveling show that crisscrossed the nation and climaxed with the hyped Bigfoot sequence on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“It’s Bigfoot Bob. Canadian champion 1998. I thought you were in the Andes, looking for your relatives.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

At the checkout line with a cart full of groceries, horrified when the tally bigfoots the bills available in our wallet.

From US News ● Jun. 2, 2016

Unlike them, Bush said, "you're one of those bigfoots who drop in for a day and then get to spend the night in your own bed."

From Time Magazine Archive