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- noun Alternative spelling of
big shot .
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Examples
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I haven't had the chance to watch it already, but thinking that Shia-LaBeouf-nephew-of-some-bigshot is in it, drops my expectations.
Sound Off: Indiana Jones 4 - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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(We should note here that YRHT fan "bigshot" predicted that same matchup over a year ago.) [Jeffrey said:] "I'm still not buying the Mitt hype ..."
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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(We should note here that YRHT fan "bigshot" predicted that same matchup over a year ago.) [Jeffrey said:] "I'm still not buying the Mitt hype ..."
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The words "bigshot" sounded especially foreign coming from her mouth.
Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000
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The only cause I can kind of point to: Michael was supposed to be the "bigshot".
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The Repukes have already demonstrated that they don't give a rat's patoot about anybody but their bigshot corporate buddies, and increasing their profits, and anybody who believes their nonsense and lies has his head in the sand.
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Some ten or so years back, I recall Disney bigshot Eisner, making the remark, that the admission prices to Disneyland & world, would be continued to be jacked up, until attendence dropped off. the same philosophy is being put into action here.
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Mark Wahlberg may play a bigshot tough guy in Contraband, but comments he made suggesting he could have prevented some of the 9/11 tragedy have him apologizing.
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I am cautious as a new boy that I am not going in like a bull in a china shop because the last thing on this earth I would like to be seen as is as some bigshot walking in.
Alan Sugar ? the lord of all he surveys Sabine Durrant 2010
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But Steyn, naturally, thinks Gates, that "Ivy League bigshot," that "blowhard grievance-monger," was the villain of the piece, and he uses this occasion to hack away at the über-uppity nigra Barack Obama as well.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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