Usually means: Powerful, influential person or weapon.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word big gun:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. big gun: Merriam-Webster
  2. big gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. big gun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. big gun: Vocabulary.com
  6. big-gun, big gun: Wordnik
  7. big gun: Wiktionary
  8. big gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. big gun: Dictionary.com
  10. Big Gun, The Big Gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. big gun: Rhymezone
  12. big gun: FreeDictionary.org
  13. big gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. big gun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. big gun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. big gun: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See big_guns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (big gun)

noun:  (military) A large artillery gun or one of the largest-caliber naval guns (as on a battleship).
noun:  (idiomatic, by extension, chiefly in the plural) A person, group, thing, or course of action that is powerful, influential, or particularly effective.
noun:  (surfing) A large surfboard used to ride very large, powerful waves.

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