big one
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play.
Colloquial
noun
A hypothetical massive earthquake somewhere along the Pacific coast of North America, but especially one projected to cause catastrophic damage to a major city such as Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
Colloquial
noun
Any other hypothetical event with the potential to be far more devastating than previous events of the same type.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "Wood agreed. ‘This is it.’ ‘The big one,’ said Fred Weasley. ‘The one we’ve all been waiting for,’ said George. ‘We know Oliver’s speech by heart,’ Fred told Harry."
- "“Little Caesar stopped by. You guessed it. Edward G. Robinson himself, and paid four big ones for the seated figure. […]”"
- "He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar."
- "You could spend the five big ones and the client could get downsized to a Jiffy Lube janitor the next week."
- "The visitors won't know the difference because […] after they’ve dropped five hundred big ones at the factory outlet stores, an extra dollar will seem like the bargain of the century."
- "I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash."
Usage
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Slang
- Uncountable