big one

== English == === Alternative forms === big 'un === Noun === big one (plural big ones) (colloquial) Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play. (US, colloquial) One hundred or one thousand dollars. 2002 September 23, Hunter S. Thompson, “Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut”, reprinted in Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk, Simon and Schuster (2004), →ISBN, page 144: He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar. (US, colloquial) A dollar. 2007, Wilson Marsh, Ouiji (novella), in Six After Midnight, Steel Moon Publishing, →ISBN, page 78: “I spent seventy-five big ones to have my computer crash.” ==== Coordinate terms ==== big two, Big Three, Big Four, big five, big six, big eight === Noun === the big one (uncountable) (slang, originally US, euphemistic) Death. to bite the big one, buy the big one ― to die === Further reading === “big one n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present Eric Partridge (2005), “big one”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 151. === Anagrams === Boeing, biogen