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BIG WHEEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big wheel mean? 

BIG WHEEL (noun)
  The noun BIG WHEEL has 1 sense:

1. an important influential personplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BIG WHEEL (noun)


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 wheel" 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 wheel"):

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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