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    BIG GUN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An important influential personplay

    Example:

    the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

    Synonyms:

    big cheese; big deal; big enchilada; big fish; big gun; big shot; big wheel; head honcho

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("big gun" is a kind of...):

    important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)

    Domain usage:

    colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "big gun"):

    knocker ((Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person)

    supremo (the most important person in an organization)

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