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Definition of Big gun
1. Noun. An important influential person. "The Qaeda commander is a very big fish"
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Important Person, Influential Person, Personage
Specialized synonyms: Knocker, Supremo
Definition of Big gun
1. Noun. (military) A large artillery gun or one of the largest-caliber naval guns (as on a battleship). ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic by extension usually pluralized) A person, group, thing, or course of action that is powerful, influential, or particularly effective. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big Gun
Literary usage of Big gun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... burned as a "chastisement," on the ground that the inhabitants had fired on
German MOVING A big gun OVER A MUDDY ROAD Twenty-five men are here employed, ..."
2. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"Then the big gun fired four times on the Hanlin, and the Chinese threw " fireballs "
over the wall, causing a conflagration in the northeast corner of the ..."
3. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"... General Cass — Apprehensions of an attack — The big gun brought up — Portage
at the Grand ... big gun ..."
4. Notes of a Busy Life by Joseph Benson Foraker (1916)
"SAMPSON-SCHLEY CONTROVERSY—A big gun FOR CINCINNATI—CUBAN LEGISLATION. IT IS not
within the purpose ..."
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