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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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He does tend to bigfoot the conversations, even when he’s getting news he wants to hear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

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

From Fox News ● Feb. 20, 2020

The website for radio bigfoot Rush Limbaugh referred to “an infuriating story of entrapment.”

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2018

That show spawned a handful of other bigfoot related TV shows, he said, and many thousands of people claimed sightings all over the country, including in Minnesota.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2016

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

March was an "exciting time" as Glenn was on the ground with the Bigfoot Society, following reports of a "surge" of clustered sightings in north-east Ohio in the space of one week.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Embarking on expeditions in vast and sometimes dangerous environments, Bigfoot hunters set out with drones, infrared cameras, audio recorders and materials to cast footprints.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

"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

He and his collaborators inadvertently helped spawn “this massive culture and industry” around the Bigfoot legend, Evans says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

He always found the weirdest attractions, like the Bigfoot museum in Georgia.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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