BIG DEAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does big deal mean?
• BIG DEAL (noun)
The noun BIG DEAL has 2 senses:
1. an important influential person
2. anything of great importance or consequence
Familiarity information: BIG DEAL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIG DEAL (noun)
Meaning:
An important influential person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
big cheese; big deal; big enchilada; big fish; big gun; big shot; big wheel; head honcho
Context examples:
he thinks he's a big shot / she's a big deal in local politics / the Qaeda commander is a very big fish
Hypernyms ("big deal" 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 deal"):
knocker ((Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person)
supremo (the most important person in an organization)
Meaning:
Anything of great importance or consequence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("big deal" is a kind of...):
importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)
