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big-time

adjective

  1. alternative Alternative form of bigtime

adverb

  1. alternative Alternative form of bigtime ‘To clarify, what I meant, Your Excellency, our spending numbers definitely need to come down big-time, and this is one very easy way of doing it.’

verb big-times · big-timing · big-timed

  1. informal, transitive To act superior to (someone), for example by talking down to them or ignoring them. "He never big-timed you. That's an example I've always tried to use."

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