BIGFOOT Definition & Meaning

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bigfoot

[ big-foot ]

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noun

plural bigfeet, bigfoots.

a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.

verb (used with or without object)

to assert one's authority or influence (over):
lobbyists bigfooting around the Senate; a reporter bigfooted by a senior correspondent.

Bigfoot

or Big Foot

[ big-foot ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a very large, hairy, humanoid creature of legend, reputed to inhabit wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

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Origin of bigfoot¹

1975–80, Americanism; after Bigfoot

Origin of bigfoot²

First recorded in 1960–65; so called from the size of its alleged footprints

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"You were hearing nicknames like Wee Guy and Bigfoot."

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This lumbering, limb-losing, eyebrow-less creature with its oddly amphibious bullfrog rattle feels so vaguely conceived, you start to wonder whether Whannell is making some galaxy-brained point that werewolves are the origin story of zombies and Bigfoot.

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Nobody believed Bigfoot had a love slave, Dominick admits, but the public bought it.

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Hundreds of sightings of Sasquatch, which is also commonly known as Bigfoot, have been reported in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and western Canada.

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He has so thoroughly disappeared from the world stage that sightings of him have made him the political equivalent of BigFoot.

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