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BIG ENCHILADA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does big enchilada mean?
• BIG ENCHILADA (noun)
The noun BIG ENCHILADA has 1 sense:
1. an important influential person
Familiarity information: BIG ENCHILADA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An important influential person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
big cheese; big deal; big enchilada; big fish; big gun; big shot; big wheel; head honcho
Context example:
the Qaeda commander is a very big fish
Hypernyms ("big enchilada" is a kind of...):
important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "big enchilada"):
knocker ((Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person)
supremo (the most important person in an organization)
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