0 If you do something big time, you do it to a great degree:
1 the state of being famous or successful:
2 relating to the highest or most successful level of an activity:
3 infml the state of being famous or successful:
You’ve really hit the big time now.
4 relating to someone or something that is famous or successful:
6 used to describe someone or something that is very successful:
This will be her first big-time race.
He's a big-time Washington lobbyist.
A lot of the big-time collectors even go through phone books and other sources to find the original artists.
There's the big-time collectors and the diggers.
There, a petty, small-time criminal will meet big-time criminals who know how to turn him into one of them.
Something is fundamentally wrong with the economics of big-time football.