Definition of Big gun

1. Noun. An important influential person. "The Qaeda commander is a very big fish"


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

big daddy
big deal
big deals
big dipper
big dippers
big enchilada
big enchiladas
big fat
big figure
big fish
big fish in a small pond
big fly
big game
big girl's blouse
big girl's blouses
big gun (current term)
big guns
big guy
big hairy armadillo
big hand
big house
big house, little house, back house, barn
big if
big iron
big kahuna
big kahunas
big league
big leaguer
big lick
big lug

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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