Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A very important person.
Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic A person with a great deal of power or influence, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.
- n. UK Ferris wheel
WordNet 3.0
- n. an important influential person
Examples
“Loftis was rousted at a queer bar back in ‘44, pallin’ with a lawyer named Charles Hartshorn, a big wheel downtown.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘big wheel’.
-
POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
-
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
-
UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
-
big
big how it is used
go (over) big, to, big-ticket item, in a big way, big-wombed, big-voiced, big-wordiness, big tobacco, big wheel, big tree, big thing, big talker, big-worded and 105 more...
-
Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
-
Climbing the company ladder
No job is too small.
blue-collar worker, dogsbody, blackleg, drudge, white-collar worker, worker-bee, bottom dog, cog, salaryman, pen-pusher, pencil pusher, paper-pusher and 26 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for big wheel.

treeseed A Big Wheel is a type of tricycle, traditionally made of plastic, with an oversized front wheel, that rides very low to the ground. Introduced by Louis Marx and Company in 1969, the Big Wheel was a very popular toy in the 1970s in the United States, partly because of its low cost and partly because consumer groups said it was a safer alternative to the traditional tricycle or bicycle.
_Wikipedia Jan 28, 2008