big one
See also: Big One
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (colloquial) Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play.
- 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter XI, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- 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, 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, page 144:
- He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar.
- (US, colloquial) A dollar.
- 2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, 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, page 78:
- “I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash.”