big-time

verb

To act superior to (someone), for example by talking down to them or ignoring them.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of bigtime.
adverb
  1. alternativeAlternative form of bigtime.

    ‘To clarify, what I meant, Your Excellency, our spending numbers definitely need to come down big-time, and this is one very easy way of doing it.’

    2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 259
verbbig-time (third-person singular simple present big-times, present participle big-timing, simple past and past participle big-timed)

present singular third person big-times · participle present big-timing · participle past big-timed · past big-timed

  1. informaltransitiveTo act superior to (someone), for example by talking down to them or ignoring them.

    "He never big-timed you. That's an example I've always tried to use."

    2006, Art Chansky, Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry, page 285
    1 more example

    "You leave Micovi and you big-time me?" […] I wasn't big-timing you or ignoring you I guess I just lost track.

    2012[?], Scott Sigler, Galactic Football League Bundle
Cite this entry
APA

big-time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-time

MLA

“big-time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-time. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “big-time,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-time.

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