Synonyms
- big
- big boy
- big cheese
- big gun
- big leaguer
- big shot
- big wheel
- big-timer
- bigfoot
- bigwig
- fat cat
- heavy
- heavy hitter
- heavyweight
- high-muck-a-muck
- high-muckety-muck
- honcho
- kahuna
- kingfish
- kingpin
- major leaguer
- muckety-muck
- muck-a-muck
- mucky-muck
- nabob
- nawab
- nibs
- nob [chiefly British]
- pooh-bah
- poo-bah
- wheel
Examples of biggie in a Sentence
He met with some television biggies.
They've had problems before, but this one's a real biggie.
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Most states, including the biggies like California, Texas, Florida and New York, are locked into their partisan preferences.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Black Tie carries skis from all the top brands, biggies like Head, K2, Atomic, Elan and Fischer, as well as more niche brands including Armada and Icelandic, plus many more, and in snowboards, everything from Arbor to Burton.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
When David gets a glimpse of a map of the brain that Ben’s been looking at, one that shows the 60-ish regions connected to the thalamus — regions including those that control sight, sound, sleep regulation, visual reasoning, judgment, like, all the biggies — something dawns on him.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
After Wednesday’s closing bell, Club names Meta Platforms , Microsoft , and Starbucks are among the biggies.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Black Tie carries skis from all the top brands, biggies like Head, K2, Atomic, Elan and Fischer, as well as more niche brands including Armada and Icelandic, plus many more, and in snowboards, everything from Arbor to Burton.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
When David gets a glimpse of a map of the brain that Ben’s been looking at, one that shows the 60-ish regions connected to the thalamus — regions including those that control sight, sound, sleep regulation, visual reasoning, judgment, like, all the biggies — something dawns on him.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
After Wednesday’s closing bell, Club names Meta Platforms , Microsoft , and Starbucks are among the biggies.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Biggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biggie. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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