big one

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big one (plural big ones)

  1. (colloquial) Something important; (with 'the') the most important one, (especially sports) the big game, the big play.
  2. (US, colloquial) One hundred or one thousand dollars.
  3. (US, colloquial) A dollar.
    • 2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 157:
      The visitors won't know the difference because [] after they’ve dropped five hundred big ones at the factory outlet stores, an extra dollar will seem like the bargain of the century.
    • 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.”
    • 2008, Daniel Edward Craig, Murder at Hotel Cinema, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 101:
      [] I paid 150,000 big ones for her to kill herself in front of the biggest wigs in Hollywood? []

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