big time

1. 1.

   the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment)

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Questions about big time

What does big time mean?

big time means "the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment)".

Is big time a common word?

big time 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.