Big Shot

Big Shot

Big shot is a slang term meaning "important or influential person", and is commonly used to describe people such as VIPs, executives, business magnates or media moguls. Big Shot can refer to:

Fiction

*Big Shot Comics, a 1940s comic book series.
*Big Shot (The Tick), an animated superhero character on the television show "The Tick"
*"Big Shots" (TV series), a television series picked up by ABC for the 2007-2008 US television season
*Big Shots (CSI episode), an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
*"Big Shot", a fictional TV show in the anime Cowboy Bebop
*"The Big Shot", a 1931 film starring Maureen O'Sullivan
*"The Big Shot", a 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart
*"Big Shots (film)", a 1987 film by Lorimar Productions
*Big Shot, is the name of an Autobot Micromaster action figure from The Transformers series released in 1989.
*"Big Shots", a 2001 film featuring a portrayal of the Russian Mafia
*Big Shot, former mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers until 1996

Music

*Big Shot (song), a song by Billy Joel, from the album "52nd Street"
*Big Shots (album), an album by Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf
*Big Shots Bonus EP, the follow up by Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf
*"Big Shot", a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from their 1967 album "Gorilla"
*"Big Shot", a song by The Beat (The English Beat) from their 1980 album "I Just Can't Stop It"
*"Big Shot", a song by theSTART from their Death Via Satellite EP.
*"Big Shot", a song by Kill Hannah
*Big$hot, a dubstep/grime musician from UK.
*Big Shot!, Terry Bogard's theme used in some of Fatal Fury and The King Of Fighters games.

Other

*Big Shot (amusement ride), an amusement ride on top of the Stratosphere Las Vegas tower
*"Big Shot," a New Orleans-based soda brand by National Beverage subsidiary Winnsboro Beverage Packers


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  • big\ shot — • big cheese • big gun • big shot • big wheel • big wig noun An important or influential person. Elmer is a big shot in the State Assembly. Compare: big cheese …   Словарь американских идиом

  • big shot — UK US noun [C] (also big noise) INFORMAL ► a person or an organization with a lot of power or influence: »He is trying to become a big shot in the mortgage business …   Financial and business terms

  • big shot — big shots N COUNT A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization. [INFORMAL] He s a big shot in Chilean politics …   English dictionary

  • big shot — n informal someone who has a lot of power or influence in a company or an area of business ▪ His father s a big shot and he thinks he is, too …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • big´-shot´ — big shot, Slang. an important person. –big´ shot´, adjective …   Useful english dictionary

  • big shot — [n] important person big cheese*, big gun*, big wheel*, bigwig*, celebrity, dignitary, heavy hitter*, heavyweight*, mogul, personage, somebody, VIP; concept 423 …   New thesaurus

  • big shot — important person, 1929, Amer.Eng., from Prohibition era gangster slang; earlier in the same sense was great shot (1861). Ultimately a reference to large type of gunshot …   Etymology dictionary

  • big shot — ☆ big shot or big wheel n. Slang a person regarded as important or influential …   English World dictionary

  • big shot — big ,shot noun count INFORMAL an important person in an organization …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • big shot — big′ shot n. Informal. inf an important or influential person • Etymology: 1905–10 …   From formal English to slang

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