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  • noun A major player in the field in question: someone who is in the big time

Etymologies

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big time +‎ -er

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Examples

  • There's Grover Norquist, a conservative movement big-timer, joining up with GOProud -- the "national organization of gay conservatives" that served as a CPAC sponsor.

    Prop 8 Ruling Exposes Democrats' Weak Support For LGBT Community 2010

  • There's Grover Norquist, a conservative movement big-timer, joining up with GOProud -- the "national organization of gay conservatives" that served as a CPAC sponsor.

    Prop 8 Ruling Exposes Democrats' Weak Support For LGBT Community 2010

  • The first big-timer to step up was Jermaine Dupri, the multiplatinum producer.

    Pimpology Pimpin’ Ken with Karen Hunter 2007

  • The first big-timer to step up was Jermaine Dupri, the multiplatinum producer.

    Pimpology Pimpin’ Ken with Karen Hunter 2007

  • Every big-timer who contributed to this film in some significant way needs to drive out to the desert and hide out for a week or two.

    Just say Noah Ed Gorman 2007

  • The first big-timer to step up was Jermaine Dupri, the multiplatinum producer.

    Pimpology Pimpin’ Ken with Karen Hunter 2007

  • Every big-timer who contributed to this film in some significant way needs to drive out to the desert and hide out for a week or two.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • Post Orange, and now with the Whitbread Book of the Year award too, she is a big-timer.

    Unoriginal thoughts Michael Allen 2005

  • Boy, big-timer, you reeled in the big fish this morning, didn't you?

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2005 2005

  • Hideki Matsui is a big-timer in New York, a triumphant Yankee for most of seven seasons who saved his best for last - an MVP award in the 2009 World Series.

    SFGate: Top News Stories jshea@sfchronicle.com (John Shea 2011

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