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Noun
big one (plural big ones)
- (colloquial) Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play.
- (US, colloquial) One hundred or one thousand dollars.
- 2002 September 23, Hunter S. Thompson, “Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut”, reprinted in Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk, Simon and Schuster (2004), →ISBN, page 144:
- He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar.
2002, George Avgerakis, Desktop Video Studio Bible: Producing Video, DVD, and Websites for Profit, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 364:You could spend the five big ones and the client could get downsized to a Jiffy Lube janitor the next week.
- (US, colloquial) A dollar.
2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 157:The visitors won't know the difference because […] after they’ve dropped five hundred big ones at the factory outlet stores, an extra dollar will seem like the bargain of the century.
- 2007, Wilson Marsh, Ouiji (novella), in Six After Midnight, Steel Moon Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
- “I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash.”
2008, Daniel Edward Craig, Murder at Hotel Cinema, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 101:“ […] I paid 150,000 big ones for her to kill herself in front of the biggest wigs in Hollywood? […] ”
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