big dog

plural big dogs

1. slangA term of address to a male friend.

   Hey, what's up, big dog?

   2 more examples

   "Thanks, big dog," he said.

   2001, Shaquille O'Neal, quoting Kobe Bryant, Shaq Talks Back, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 241

   My 7yo was cursing and I was ok big dog you wanna cuss, let's hit the Stu, show the world that pottymouth, and she balked lol

   2022 May 7, @ken_wheeler, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2024

2. figurativelyslangAn important or powerful person.

   "Seem like to me Deck goin round shit-disturbin, what it is. An he too puss to go messin with the big dogs, so he schemin on us. Shit, man, I take that motherfucker down myself, cept he ain't never out that bodyguard of his, an word say that dude one way bad sucker."

   1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 225

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog.