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Definition of Bigwigs
1. bigwig [n] - See also: bigwig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigwigs
Literary usage of Bigwigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1861)
"Thus ten thousand pounds and a great revenue rested on the answer to the simple
question, WHAT is COAL ? This was the question the " bigwigs" were called ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"And look to it likewise in time, oh ye busy bigwigs of the Board, That the hungry,
ubiquitous Jobber, whose eye is on everyone's pound! ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"If then, ladies, the bigwigs begin to sneer at the course of our studies, ...
Let the bigwigs despise us ; such contempt of their neighbours is the custom ..."
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