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big shot
also big·shot (bĭg′shŏt′)n. Slang
An important or influential person.
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big shot
n
informal an important or influential person
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big′ shot`
n.
Informal.
an important or influential person.
[1905–10]
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| Noun | 1. |  big shot - an important influential person; "he thinks he's a big shot"; "she's a big deal in local politics"; "the Qaeda commander is a very big fish"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech important person, influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events knocker - (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person supremo - the most important person in an organization |
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