big wheel

Questions about big wheel

What does big wheel mean?

big wheel means "an important influential person".

What is another word for big wheel?

Close synonyms include big shot, big gun, 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 wheel a common word?

big wheel 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.