big bucks


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big bucks

pl.n. Slang
A large amount of money: worked for big bucks in a large corporation.

big bucks

pl n
1. large quantities of money
2. the power and influence of people or organizations that control large quantities of money

big′ bucks′


n.pl.
Slang.
a large amount of money.
[1970–75]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.big bucks - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)big bucks - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
big money, megabucks, pile, bundle
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
money - wealth reckoned in terms of money; "all his money is in real estate"
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And I'm no squaw," Mary retaliated, "an' I wouldn't marry a big buck Indian if all the rest of the men in the world was dead.
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Now the big buck bounded past us not half a spear's throw away, and behind him streamed the countless wolves, and from the throats of the wolves went up that awful music.
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Just at this time the mayor was boasting that he had put an end to gambling and prize fighting in the city; but here a swarm of professional gamblers had leagued themselves with the police to fleece the strikebreakers; and any night, in the big open space in front of Brown's, one might see brawny Negroes stripped to the waist and pounding each other for money, while a howling throng of three or four thousand surged about, men and women, young white girls from the country rubbing elbows with big buck Negroes with daggers in their boots, while rows of woolly heads peered down from every window of the surrounding factories.
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