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: --
You can make it big-time wherever you are.
The film progresses to show the problems of a big-time football program.
Most of them are not the big-time gamblers who invest hundreds of pounds at racetracks or casinos, but people for whom the pools offer some interest in life.
We are interested not just in drugs barons, but in all big-time criminals.
These are important new powers for the courts which will strengthen their hands in dealing with big-time criminals.
Unfortunately, the really big money crime is fraud, and big-time fraud in particular, which is permitted in high places.
We can make our message clear to dealers by targeting both big-time and small-time dealers.
It is not always possible to win over big-time villains by negotiation alone.