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big dogs

big dogs is the plural of big dog.

Meaning of big dog

Noun

big dog (plural big dogs)

  1. (slang) A term of address to a male friend.
    • Hey, what's up, big dog?
  2. (figuratively, slang) An important or powerful person.
    • "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."1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 225
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog.

Questions about big dogs

What is big dogs the plural of?
Big dogs is the plural of big dog.

Words near big dogs in the dictionary

  1. big dipper
  2. big dippers
  3. big divorce energy
  4. big dog
  5. big dog of the tanyard
  6. big dogs
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  8. big drinks
  9. big drum
  10. big Ds
  11. Big Dumb Object

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