biggie

biggie
/big"ee/, n. Slang.
1. an important, influential, or prominent person; big shot; bigwig.
2. something that is very large, important, impressive, or successful: a merger of two corporate biggies; a movie that was this year's box-office biggie.
[1930-35; BIG1 + -IE]

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