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  • verb Present participle of bigfoot.

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Examples

  • I was in Downing Street, talking to my BBC colleague Laura Kuenssberg, who I was supposed to be "bigfooting" - that's telly speak for replacing in front of the camera.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Set in Africa, it stars Martin Jarvis as David Bradburn, a senior BBC foreign correspondent who is portrayed as a pompous, self-centred, libidinous figure and is seen 'bigfooting' a lowly local stringer in the first episode.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Colorado has seen its share of bigfooting by out-of-state interests, and not just on the Republican side.

    Scozzafava Should Withdraw « View From a Height 2009

  • Rick Perry stormed into the 2012 presidential race, bigfooting past the Ames Straw Poll and surging to frontrunner...

    Rick Perry Deserves Scrutiny For His Role In The Execution Of Cameron Todd Willingham The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • I love the idea of filling that gap, and I love the lost-classics feel of the list of nominees they put together, with no unanimous classic bigfooting around but lots of names and titles that have survived barely, at times the decades as readers' favorites.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010

  • I love the idea of filling that gap, and I love the lost-classics feel of the list of nominees they put together, with no unanimous classic bigfooting around but lots of names and titles that have survived barely, at times the decades as readers' favorites.

    Lost Booker Winner Found Omnivoracious 2010

  • The idea of a Boomer-era icon like Waters bigfooting a Gen X icon like Smith using hipster-derived tools seeems to be what has gotten people so upset.

    Taking sides: Is guerrilla music marketing effective in 2010? Or just annoying? 2010

  • Hey, um, my normal policy is that I don't comment on reviews mainly for fear of bigfooting on any chance of a discussion.

    review: CHILD OF FIRE hradzka 2010

  • With Gillibrand's fool Blue-Doggish moves, she would have been vulnerable from a challenge from her left, but now Ford's bigfooting carpetbagging sucks all the air out of the room for any other candidate.

    Making Light: The New York Times gives Harold Ford, Jr. enough rope 2010

  • I love the idea of filling that gap, and I love the lost-classics feel of the list of nominees they put together, with no unanimous classic bigfooting around but lots of names and titles that have survived barely, at times the decades as readers' favorites.

    Shelfari Omnivoracious 2010

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