big-ass

adjective

Very large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important.

“A: That's one big-ass sandwich you've got there. Where'd you get that thing? B: From the deli on Main Street.”

Meanings

adjectivebig-ass (comparative more big-ass, superlative most big-ass)

comparative more big-ass · superlative most big-ass · alternative bigass · alternative big ass

  1. slangvulgarVery large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important.

    A: That's one big-ass sandwich you've got there. Where'd you get that thing? B: From the deli on Main Street.

    4 more examples

    It had two big sliding doors and the whole front was a mirror, one big ass mirror jim.

    1978, Hubert Selby, Requiem for a dream: a novel, page 155

    What is all this talk about some bigass executive coming in to buy this town?

    1990, Richard A. Spears, Richard A. Spears, Forbidden American English, link

    With flowers and candles and a bigass cake, the fellowship hall sufficed.

    2011, Linda Howard, Prey, page 321

    They steered around the courtyard, where they could see the bastards in black sweatshirts and the bigass altered mobsters with big-ass guns holding off the OCU and trying to advance on the Sibyls.

    2011, Anna Windsor, Captive Heart: A Novel of the Dark Crescent Sisterhood, page 395

    Synonyms: great, huge, humongous, big old, great, honkin'

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveVery large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important.

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