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big C

big C noun: cancer.

Noun

the big C (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic, slang) cancer.
    • You can always count on John Wayne, 57; he never steps out of character. "I kicked the Big C," growled the movie toughie, admitting that it was lung cancer that put him in Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital for surgery last September.1965, Time

big C meaning in Bengali

big C in Bengali

ক্যান্সার

Origin of big C

From the first letter of cancer.

Questions about big C

What does big C mean?
Big C means cancer.
What is big C in Bengali?
Big C in Bengali is ক্যান্সার. See Big C meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is big C?
Big C is a noun.

Words near big C in the dictionary

  1. big brown bat
  2. big brown bats
  3. big bucks
  4. Big Burn
  5. big business
  6. big C
  7. big car
  8. big cars
  9. big casino
  10. big cassino
  11. big cat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: big C (page history and authors); big C (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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