bigfoot

¹

[big-foot]

noun

plural

bigfeet, bigfoots 

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

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

Or Big Foot

[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.

Word History and Origins

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

The faces of these supposedly brave men are more fuzzed out than Bigfoot in that famous footage from 1967.

From Los Angeles Times

The Supreme Court gave the president all the tools to bigfoot the judiciary, and now he’s doing it.

From Slate

"You were hearing nicknames like Wee Guy and Bigfoot."

From BBC

This lumbering, limb-losing, eyebrow-less creature with its oddly amphibious bullfrog rattle feels so vaguely conceived, you start to wonder whether Whannell is making some galaxy-brained point that werewolves are the origin story of zombies and Bigfoot.

From Los Angeles Times

Nobody believed Bigfoot had a love slave, Dominick admits, but the public bought it.

From Salon