Big One
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See also: big one
English
Noun
- (seismology, colloquial, usually with the) A hypothetical massive earthquake somewhere along the Pacific coast of North America, but especially one projected to cause catastrophic damage to a major city such as Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
- (colloquial, by extension) Any other hypothetical event with the potential to be far more devastating than previous events of the same type.
- Coordinate term: big daddy
- Near-synonym: mother of all
- 1972, Sanford and Son, spoken by Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford)):
- Oh, it's the worst one, this is the Big One [heart attack]! I'm dyin! You hear that, Elizabeth, I'm comin to join ya, honey [in Heaven]!