bigtimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

big +‎ time

形容詞

bigtime (comparative more bigtime, superlative most bigtime)

1. Of major significance or importance.
   • 1918, Edna Ferber, “That’s Marriage”, in Cheerful—By Request‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 169:

     Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.

   • 1954 May, Richard Wilson, “Back to Julie”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 8, number 2, page 69:

     Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.

   • 1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page i. 9:

     'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'

   • 1997 July, Jennifer Zajac, “Get some major league fun at Little League dollars”, in Money, volume 26, number 7, page 158:

     Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.

   • 2006 April 23, “A twist in the tale”, in The Observer:

     With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.

反意語

• small-time

関連する語

• big time

副詞

bigtime (not comparable)

1. To a significant degree.
   • 2018 March 15, Bill Press, “‘Lamb the Sham’ beats ‘Trump the Chump’”, in Chicago Tribune:

     This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.

名詞

bigtime (複数形 bigtimes)

1. Alternative form of big time
   • 1986 May 30, Larry Stewart, “It’s Time to Replace the Talking Heads With Racing Cars”, in Los Angeles Times:

     The Financial News Network’s SCORE program […] hit the bigtime last Monday by offering live coverage of Snow Chief’s victory in the Jersey Derby […]

   • 2010 May 20, Roy Wilkinson, “How Judas Priest invented heavy metal”, in The Guardian:

     Thirty years ago Rob Halford led Judas Priest, and heavy metal itself, out of the Midlands and into the bigtime.

発音

名詞

big time (複数形 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^[1]:

     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^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     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

副詞

big-time

1. Alternative spelling of bigtime