big spender

1. 1.

   one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment

   “the last of the big spenders”

   Synonymshigh roller

   Broaderspendthrift

Questions about big spender

What does big spender mean?

big spender means "one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment".

What is another word for big spender?

Close synonyms include high roller. 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 spender a common word?

big spender is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.