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big time
noun
- Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation:
She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- Slang. a very good time.
- Theater. (in vaudeville) any highly successful circuit of theaters that produces two performances daily.
big time
noun
- informal.
- the highest or most profitable level of an occupation or profession, esp the entertainment business
- ( as modifier )
a big-time comedian
Derived Forms
- ˈ-ˈپ, noun
Other Word Forms
- -پ adjective
- -پİ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of big time1
Example Sentences
Fisher called the tariff formula “ridiculous” and predicted that “if GOP congress members don’t get Trump’s tariffs reigned in pretty quickly, the midterms ... will be a blood bath for them big time.”
“It’s a lot of credit to them because they don’t get a lot of reps in practice. So they stepped up big time.”
“I think it’s not fair, big time, to the businesses and the locals,” she said.
You can’t help but miss out on something, and miss out big time.
But if there's one person Trump owes big time it's Musk and he's already thoroughly entrenched in the national security apparatus as a major defense contractor.
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