big-timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

big-time

1. Alternative form of bigtime.
   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 259:

     ‘To clarify, what I meant, Your Excellency, our spending numbers definitely need to come down big-time, and this is one very easy way of doing it.’

動詞

big-time (third-person singular simple present big-times, present participle big-timing, simple past and past participle big-timed)

1. (informal, transitive) To act superior to (someone), for example by talking down to them or ignoring them.
   • 2006, Art Chansky, Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry, page 285:

     "He never big-timed you. That's an example I've always tried to use."

   • 2012[?], Scott Sigler, Galactic Football League Bundle:

     "You leave Micovi and you big-time me?" […] I wasn't big-timing you or ignoring you I guess I just lost track.

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名詞

big time (plural big times)

1. The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment.

   Synonyms: big league, major league

   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton‎:

     This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

派生語

• hit the big time

副詞

big time (comparative more big time, superlative most big time)

1. (informal) By a large margin; with great significance.
   • 2013 September 18, “Wheel of Fortune contestant loses chance at $1 million after mispronouncing a word”, in Daily Mail:

     A Wheel of Fortune contestant was about to win a shot at the million dollar grand prize when he bumbled his answer and lost out big time.

   • 2015 January 28, Hugo Martin, “American Airlines’ fuel-buying bet pays off in record profit”, in Los Angeles Times:

     “American doesn’t hedge,” said Seth Kaplan, managing partner for the trade publication Airlines Weekly. “So, they have won big time.”

   • 2019 December 6, Kerry Gold, “North Vancouver condo buyers ‘won big time playing the long game’”, in The Globe and Mail (Vancouver):

     North Vancouver condo buyers ‘won big time playing the long game’ [title]

   • 2020 June 22, Alan Swann, “Peterborough United almost missed out on signing star man Ivan Toney, but now they are set to cash in big-time”, in Peterborough Telegraph:

     Peterborough United almost missed out on signing star man Ivan Toney, but now they are set to cash in big-time [title]

   • 2021 January 1, Paul Krugman, “Things Will Get Better. Seriously.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But on other fronts there’s a clear case for optimism. Science has come to our rescue, big time, with the miraculously fast development of vaccines against the coronavirus.

派生語

• big-timer

動詞

big time (third-person singular simple present big times, present participle big timing, simple past and past participle big timed)

1. Alternative spelling of big-time.