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Synonyms
- big
- big boy
- big cheese
- big gun
- big leaguer
- big shot
- big wheel
- big-timer
- biggie
- bigwig
- fat cat
- heavy
- heavy hitter
- heavyweight
- high-muck-a-muck
- high-muckety-muck
- honcho
- kahuna
- kingfish
- kingpin
- major leaguer
- muckety-muck
- muck-a-muck
- mucky-muck
- nabob
- nawab
- nibs
- nob [chiefly British]
- pooh-bah
- poo-bah
- wheel
Examples of bigfoot in a Sentence
a bigfoot in the field of genetics
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—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 9 July 2024
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—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Fallon then revealed an image of Kanzi sitting with his arms crossed in front of the television set, staring at Eisenberg’s bigfoot self on screen.
—EW.com, 13 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1958, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Bigfoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigfoot. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
bigfoot
noun
big·foot
ˈbig-ˌfu̇t
often capitalized
: a large hairy humanlike creature reported to exist in the Pacific Northwest
called also Sasquatch
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