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  • adjective Alternative spelling of bigtime.
  • adverb Alternative spelling of bigtime.

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Examples

  • “We have two vampires still operating in two vastly different parts of the world, and that is what I define as big-time.”

    Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

  • “We have two vampires still operating in two vastly different parts of the world, and that is what I define as big-time.”

    Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

  • Now, that is what I call big-time venture capitalism.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joel John Roberts 2011

  • When Seven Card Stud played itself out, I thought that that was it: The fun and games were over, and so was my so-called big-time show-business career.

    Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007

  • When Seven Card Stud played itself out, I thought that that was it: The fun and games were over, and so was my so-called big-time show-business career.

    Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007

  • Kiss 105.3 called the big-time move a "betrayal to our community" and charged that he "was lured away from Ottawa by a country-music superstar."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The same was true in New York City, where, as another jazz musician remembered, the clubs where the music was being invented were “run by big-time mobs, not tramps . . . who had a way of running them better than anyone else.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • It calls for the big-time shaking of your booty for God, something ecstatically performed since the origin of human culture.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • These guys have all been class acts not exactly a given in the world of big-time sports and I am immensely proud to have had them on my team.

    F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Solving Sprawl with Basketball F. Kaid Benfield 2011

  • It's all part of Microsoft's overall strategy to revamp its mobile business against big-time competition from Apple, Google (Android) and others.

    Microsoft set to launch social-oriented cellphones 2010

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