big shot

Questions about big shot

What does big shot mean?

big shot means "an important influential person".

What is another word for big shot?

Close synonyms include big gun, 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 shot a common word?

big shot 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.