English
Noun
big one (plural big ones)
- (colloquial) Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (chiefly sports) the big game, the big play
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, xi:
- 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.
- (US, colloquial) One hundred or one thousand dollars.
- 1988, Arthur Allen Cohen, Acts of Theft, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-11250-3, page 166:
- “Little Caesar stopped by. You guessed it. Edward G. Robinson himself, and paid four big ones for the seated figure. […] ”
- 2002 September 23, Hunter S. Thompson, “Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut”, reprinted in Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk, Simon and Schuster (2004), ISBN 978-0-684-87319-0, page 144:
- He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar.
- 2002, George Avgerakis, Desktop Video Studio Bible: Producing Video, DVD, and Websites for Profit, McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 978-0-07-140612-3, page 364:
- You could spend the five big ones and the client could get downsized to a Jiffy Lube janitor the next week.
- (US, colloquial) A dollar.
- 2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 978-1-57233-600-1, page 157:
- 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.
- 2007, Wilson Marsh, Ouiji (novella), in Six After Midnight, Steel Moon Publishing, ISBN 978-0-6151-5192-2, page 78:
- “I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash.”
- 2008, Daniel Edward Craig, Murder at Hotel Cinema, Llewellyn Worldwide, ISBN 978-0-7387-1119-5, page 101:
- “ […] I paid 150,000 big ones for her to kill herself in front of the biggest wigs in Hollywood? […] ”
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