BIG GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big game mean? 

• BIG GAME (noun)
  The noun BIG GAME has 1 sense:

1. large animals that are hunted for sport

  Familiarity information: BIG GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIG GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large animals that are hunted for sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("big game" is a kind of...):

game (animal hunted for food or sport)

 Context examples 

"You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game. And that is what Latin does for the thinker. It trains."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One man play yellow markers—maybe one yellow marker worth one thousand dollars, maybe two thousand dollars. One man play red markers. Maybe they are worth five hundred dollars, maybe one thousand dollars. It is a very big game. Everybody play very high, up to the roof.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)