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View synonyms for big gun

big gun

noun

, Slang.
  1. an influential or important person or thing:

    He's a big gun in science.



big gun

noun

  1. informal.
    an important or influential person


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Example Sentences

It was the big gun atrocity of the day for the 24 hours before the Roswell shooting.

He is either going to go out in a big gun battle or lay low.

The breakfast hour was enlivened by a continual peppering of small shot from her, varied by a big gun from her father.

It was the duck board, as much as the rifle and the big gun, which enabled the Canadians to win at Passchendaele last November.

Now they were abreast the famous Golden Tower, and a big gun was fired at them; but the shot went wide.

Didn't you bring two gentlemen on board, and 80 didn't one of them want to measure the carriage of the big gun?

What to do with his horse was a question, for the report of the big gun would set him crazy.

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