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- noun Plural form of
big-wig .
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Examples
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Cuomo calls big-wigs to summit to reach deal allowing livery cabs to pick up street hails in outer boroughs The Bloomberg-backed bill also requires hundreds of new yellow cabs to be handicapped-accessible Kenneth Lovett
NY Daily News Kenneth Lovett 2011
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Cuomo calls big-wigs to summit to reach deal allowing livery cabs to pick up street hails in outer boroughs The Bloomberg-backed bill also requires hundreds of new yellow cabs to be handicapped-accessible Kenneth Lovett
NY Daily News Kenneth Lovett 2011
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Hedy was never formally educated in math or engineering, but she picked up quite a bit of the background necessary for her technological ambitions from being forced to sit in on Mandl's sales pitches to military big-wigs.
Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009
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They make a big deal of this trip, and take along Nobel Laureates, European Ministers of Parliament and other big-wigs to demonstrate how serious they are.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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Let the big-wigs do their own xeroxing and run their own errands to Quick Print for a change.
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The big-wigs at ABC really ARE aliens who want to turn our brains to mush and eat them!
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Mountain biking was spawned by a group of hippies and scofflaws (including current industry big-wigs Joe Breeze and Gary Fisher) who enjoyed getting high and bombing through the woods around Mount Tamalpais.
Stoned Hippies, Crappy Bikes, and the History of Mountain Biking « PubliCola 2010
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Motoring big-wigs lobbied for the Locomotives Amendment Act to be repealed.
19th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads | Carlton Reid 2011
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Dabbing their heads and waving paper fans, Republican big-wigs are now decrying the unprecedented spending by super PACs in the GOP primary.
HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - GOP Starts To Sour On Super PACs Paul Blumenthal 2012
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I'm not sure that the big-wigs I'm talking to know that I'm in sweatpants drinking water enriched with hydration tablets while simultaneously having my Dorsal Sacral Ligament worked on by a fellow runner.
Brooke Wells: Elevated Living Brooke Wells 2011
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