big-ass en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From big + -ass.
Meanings
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(slang, vulgar) Very large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important.
What is all this talk about some bigass executive coming in to buy this town?
1990, Richard A. Spears, Richard A. Spears, Forbidden American English, link:With flowers and candles and a bigass cake, the fellowship hall sufficed.
2011, Linda Howard, Prey, page 321A: That's one big-ass sandwich you've got there. Where'd you get that thing? B: From the deli on Main Street.
It had two big sliding doors and the whole front was a mirror, one big ass mirror jim.
1978, Hubert Selby, Requiem for a dream: a novel, page 155:They steered around the courtyard, where they could see the bastards in black sweatshirts and the bigass altered mobsters with big-ass guns holding off the OCU and trying to advance on the Sibyls.
2011, Anna Windsor, Captive Heart: A Novel of the Dark Crescent Sisterhood, page 395:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| big ass | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more big-ass | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| bigass | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most big-ass | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |