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big bucks
plural noun
- a large amount of money.
big bucks
plural noun
- large quantities of money
- the power and influence of people or organizations that control large quantities of money
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Idioms and Phrases
A great deal of money, as in A swimming pool—that means you're spending big bucks. Buck has been slang for “dollar” since the mid-1800s. [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Cryobanks, which screen for genetic disorders and STDs, cost big bucks; see here for some of the charges.
The number that jumped out was the huge revenue, big bucks for a little burg.
Rothko, Basquiat, and Warhol paintings fetch big bucks at auction.
Fourteen years later, corporations are again splashing out big bucks for hot new tech toys.
This is not the first time the site has been willing to dole out big bucks to nab public figures.
(very big bucks), and the Skipper replied with a still more portentous shake, Meget, meget.
They turned a corner, and there was nine big bucks, wrapped up in blankets, heads and all!
Nearly all were big bucks, with velvety antlers up to about 20 inches in length.
Three big bucks were spending the season on this slope and every night they bedded in the pines.
Fancy you two young fellows deciding that the big bucks up in Detroit don't know how to sell automobiles!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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