big dog
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- A term of address to a male friend.
- Hey what's up big dog?
- 2001, Shaquille O'Neal, quoting Kobe Bryant, Shaq Talks Back, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 241:
- "Thanks, big dog," he said.
- 2022 May 7, @ken_wheeler, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 26 March 2024:
- My 7yo was cursing and I was ok big dog you wanna cuss, let's hit the Stu, show the world that pottymouth, and she balked lol
- (slang) An important or powerful person.
- 1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 225:
- "Seem like to me Deck goin round shit-disturbin, what it is. An he too puss to go messin with the big dogs, so he schemin on us. Shit, man, I take that motherfucker down myself, cept he ain't never out that bodyguard of his, an word say that dude one way bad sucker."
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog.
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References[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “big dog n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang