big-time

“We have two vampires still operating in two vastly different parts of the world, and that is what I define as big-time.”

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

“We have two vampires still operating in two vastly different parts of the world, and that is what I define as big-time.”

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

Now, that is what I call big-time venture capitalism.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joel John Roberts 2011

When Seven Card Stud played itself out, I thought that that was it: The fun and games were over, and so was my so-called big-time show-business career.

Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007

When Seven Card Stud played itself out, I thought that that was it: The fun and games were over, and so was my so-called big-time show-business career.

Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007

Kiss 105.3 called the big-time move a "betrayal to our community" and charged that he "was lured away from Ottawa by a country-music superstar."

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

The same was true in New York City, where, as another jazz musician remembered, the clubs where the music was being invented were “run by big-time mobs, not tramps . . . who had a way of running them better than anyone else.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It calls for the big-time shaking of your booty for God, something ecstatically performed since the origin of human culture.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

These guys have all been class acts not exactly a given in the world of big-time sports and I am immensely proud to have had them on my team.

F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Solving Sprawl with Basketball F. Kaid Benfield 2011

It's all part of Microsoft's overall strategy to revamp its mobile business against big-time competition from Apple, Google (Android) and others.

Microsoft set to launch social-oriented cellphones 2010