big gun

Questions about big gun

What does big gun mean?

big gun means "an important influential person".

What is another word for big gun?

Close synonyms include big shot, big wheel, big cheese, big deal, big enchilada. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is big gun a common word?

big gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.