bigtime

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See also: big time and big-time

English

Alternative forms

big-time

Etymology

big +‎ time

Adjective

bigtime (comparative more bigtime, superlative most bigtime)

Of major significance or importance.
- 1918, Edna Ferber, “That’s Marriage”, in Cheerful—By Request‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 169:
  Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.
- 1954 May, Richard Wilson, “Back to Julie”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 8, number 2, page 69:
  Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.
- 1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page i. 9:
  'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'
- 1997 July, Jennifer Zajac, “Get some major league fun at Little League dollars”, in Money, volume 26, number 7, page 158:
  Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.
- 2006 April 23, “A twist in the tale”, in The Observer:
  With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.

Antonyms

small-time

Related terms

big time

Translations

of major significance

French: sacré (fr), de première (fr), magistral (fr)
German: gewaltig (de), spitzenmäßig (de), riesig (de), ganz groß, wirklich bedeutend

Adverb

bigtime (not comparable)

To a significant degree.
- 2018 March 15, Bill Press, “‘Lamb the Sham’ beats ‘Trump the Chump’”, in Chicago Tribune:
  This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.

Translations

to a significant degree

French: sacrément (fr), vachement (fr), carrément (fr), magistralement (fr)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stort (no), alvorlig (no), enormt

Noun

bigtime (plural bigtimes)

Alternative form of big time
- 1986 May 30, Larry Stewart, “It’s Time to Replace the Talking Heads With Racing Cars”, in Los Angeles Times:
  The Financial News Network’s SCORE program […] hit the bigtime last Monday by offering live coverage of Snow Chief’s victory in the Jersey Derby […]
- 2010 May 20, Roy Wilkinson, “How Judas Priest invented heavy metal”, in The Guardian:
  Thirty years ago Rob Halford led Judas Priest, and heavy metal itself, out of the Midlands and into the bigtime.

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