What is "bigwig"

Usage examples of "bigwig".

TV in the war room, Mike, Chief Avise, and some other important bigwigs watched their boss do business as usual.

Then Ned Cooley would call all the important people he knew in Wyoming and all the bigwigs in Denver, including the archbishop, and ask them to call the Provincial.

As far as the industry bigwigs were concerned, Cal was too old and too established as a sideman for the investment needed.

Five months before, he had enjoyed taking part in their conflict with Efrafra, in diving on the formidable General Woundwort, in covering the retreat of Bigwig and the fugitive does in their flight from Efrafra and helping them escape down the river.

There, in the eyes of his former compadres, he was apotheosized from a rural campesino into a nuevo rico who claimed he could buy the entire landscape of his birth, its petty aristocrats, snobs and bigwigs thrown in for good measure.

All week long SS bigwigs have been stomping through the puddles in the ice-cold raw cement structure, down in the enormous underground chambers and up above at the untried furnaces, their impatient brusque comments echoing to the splash and thump of boots.

Boll Marchell while Gweanvin considered the point that Marchell was not with the lunching group of bigwigs, which probably meant he would not be present at the upcoming test.

The president would be led from his office through a narrow corridor, then out to a table in the northermost tent to eat lunch with the bigwigs.

One of the chatters knew that not long after the war began Diewerge had become manager of the Reich radio station in Danzig, and another had information on his doings in the postwar period: as the crony of other Nazi bigwigs, such as Achenbach, who became a Free Democratic member of the Bundestag, Diewerge allegedly infiltrated the liberal party of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

The audience consisted of the usual Party bigwigs, but also of scientists, artists, high Navy and Air Force officers, even diplomats.

The country citizens of this pint-sized planet were foregathering and cluttering fearfully while they waited for the bigwigs from the city to get here and do something about the sudden giant.

Places were allocated to everyone by name and, my father and I entering almost last, I found that not only were we not expected at the same table - he was put naturally with the Bigwigs and the Constituency Association's chairman - but I was squeezed against a distant wall between a Mrs Leonard Kitchens and Orinda herself.

One segment in particular, the segment with the bigwigs on it, is rocking and seesawing violently, smoke rising from both ends.

All the bigwigs and the bodyguards are on their asses now, keeping their centers of gravity low as the segment bucks nastily.

The bigwigs and the bodyguards are standing up now, all looking in the same direction.