big league

See also: bigleague and big-league

English

Pronunciation
  • Audio (AU)(file)

Noun

big league (plural big leagues)

  1. A major league.

Translations
major league — see major league

Adjective

big league (comparative more big league, superlative most big league)

  1. Major league (pertaining to the highest level of professional sports).
    He made a real big league play.
  2. Major league (significant, important).

Translations
major league — see major league

Adverb

big league (not comparable)

  1. (slang) To a significant degree; on a large scale.
    • 2015, Donald Trump, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.

Usage notes
  • In 2016, Donald Trump often used big league unusually as an adverb, rather than a noun or adjective, which was widely misinterpreted as bigly.[1]

See also

References
  1. Liam Stack (2016 October 24) “Yes, Trump Really Is Saying ‘Big League,’ not ‘Bigly,’ Linguists Say”, in The New York Times‎
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.