big time

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big time

noun big times · big-time · bigtime

  1. The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment. This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

    Similar: big league, major league

adverb more big time · most big time · big-time · bigtime

  1. informal By a large margin; with great significance. A Wheel of Fortune contestant was about to win a shot at the million dollar grand prize when he bumbled his answer and lost out big time.

verb big times · big timing · big timed · big-time · bigtime

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of big-time

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@misc{big_time_2026,
  title = {big time},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/big%20time},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}