bigwig
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
Definition of bigwig
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(informal)A person of importance in a group or organization.
“The company bigwig is gathering his staff together for a meeting today.”
“[…] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.”
“Before her hay-day, she attended many derbys under her dad's celebrity where she'd hobnob with the bigwigs in Millionaire's Row.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
First arose in the 1730s, from big + wig. Formerly, English men of authority wore wigs. Bigwig plays on the idea that higher authority is denoted by a larger wig.
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