Adjective
Of major significance or importance.
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Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.
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The police were, of course, only interested in this man as a big-time brothel-keeper and it was not until we expressed an interest in his finances that the Deuxième Bureau unearthed the parallel dossier which was running with their colleagues of the police department.
Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.
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'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'
Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.
With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.
Adverb
To a significant degree.
Usage- Figurative
- Informal
- not-comparable
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This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.