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BIG GUN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An important influential person
Example:
the Qaeda commander is a very big fish
Synonyms:
big cheese; big deal; big enchilada; big fish; big gun; big shot; big wheel; head honcho
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("big gun" is a kind of...):
important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "big gun"):
knocker ((Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person)
supremo (the most important person in an organization)
