bigtime en · ADJ
Etymology
From big + time.
Meanings
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Of major significance or importance.
Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.
1918, Edna Ferber, “That’s Marriage”, in Cheerful—By Request, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 169:'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'
1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page i. 9: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.
1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 16:With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.
2006 April 23, “A twist in the tale”, in The Observer:Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.
1954 May, Richard Wilson, “Back to Julie”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 8, number 2, page 69: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.
1997 July, Jennifer Zajac, “Get some major league fun at Little League dollars”, in Money, volume 26, number 7, page 158:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more bigtime | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| big-time | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most bigtime | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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Translations (10)
de riesig (of major significance) · pl pierwszoligowy (of major significance) · fr sacré (of major significance) · pl czołowy (of major significance) · de wirklich bedeutend (of major significance) · de spitzenmäßig (of major significance) · fr de première (of major significance) · fr magistral (of major significance) · de ganz groß (of major significance) · de gewaltig (of major significance)