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Is the term "bigwig" widely used?
Is the term "bigwig" widely used?
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I've certainly heard it: "He's a bigwig at the company". (i.e. management, high up)
but not often. I have a 21 year old son and he has probably never said that.
I sometimes say "muckey-muck" to mean the same thing but I don't know where I got that term from.
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