big game

Large animals or fish hunted or caught for sport.

big′-game′ adj.

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big game

1. (Hunting) large animals that are hunted or fished for sport

2. informal the objective of an important or dangerous undertaking

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

big′ game′

1. large wild animals, esp. when hunted for sport.

2. a major objective, esp. one that involves risk.

[1860–65]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

big game - large animals that are hunted for sport

game - animal hunted for food or sport

Translations

حَيَوانات كَبيرَه

divokávysoká zvěř

storvildt

Großwild

gros gibier

nagyvad

stór veiîidÿr

animali da caccia grossa caccia grossa

storvilt

divá/vysoká zver

büyük av hayvanı

大猎物

big

(big) adjective

1. large in size. a big car.

2. important. a big event.

big game

large animals (usually lions, tigers etc) that are hunted. He hunts big game in Africa; a big game hunter.

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Come to me, Lone Wolf, for there is big game afoot!

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With his civilized friends he had hunted big game with the weapons of civilization and though he never had killed except for food or in self-defense he had amused himself firing at inanimate targets thrown into the air and had perfected himself in the use of firearms without realizing that he had done so.

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The lightless walls seem to spring from the very mud upon which the stranded barges lie; and the narrow lanes coming down to the foreshore resemble the paths of smashed bushes and crumbled earth where big game comes to drink on the banks of tropical streams.

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"I expect you've heard of him; shoots big game and all that.

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"I 'm buyin' her, an' her price don't cut any figure alongside the big game I 'm playin'.

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From a heterogeneous collection of loot, Achmet Zek procured a pith helmet and a European saddle, and from his black slaves and followers a party of porters, askaris and tent boys to make up a modest safari for a big game hunter.

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For sport, you might fish in Norway or Iceland, or shoot in Hungary; you could run to a yacht if you cared about it, and if you fancy big game, why, there's all Africa before you."

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He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa.

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Then he remembered the hunch and the big strike he believed was coming, and he knew that the spur had been his desire to sit in for a hand at that big game. And again why?

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He accompanied the men on several hunting trips where they found him perfectly at home and well versed in all the finer points of big game hunting.

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But he was indeed a hero in the eyes of these men--men accustomed to hunting big game.

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"You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game. And that is what Latin does for the thinker.

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