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big game

big game noun: any large animal(s) hunted for sport.

big game: any large animal(s) hunted for sport
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Noun

big game (uncountable)

  1. Any large animal(s) hunted for sport.
    • The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears. It comes two years after the government pledged to introduce a ban.2021 December 10, Jamie Grierson, “British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Proper noun capitalized: Big Game

the Big Game

  1. (US, euphemistic) Synonym of Super Bowl (“the annual national American football championship for the U.S. based National Football League”)
    Synonyms:
    Super Bowl

Synonyms of big game

Antonyms

Origin of big game

From big + game, since it is the most prominent sports match.

Questions about big game

What does big game mean?
Big game means any large animal(s) hunted for sport.
What part of speech is big game?
Big game can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near big game in the dictionary

  1. Big Four
  2. Big Freeze
  3. big friend
  4. big friends
  5. Big G
  6. big game
  7. big girl
  8. big girl pants
  9. big girl's blouse
  10. big girl's blouses
  11. big girls

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