big game
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- noun
- /bɪɡ ɡeɪm/
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caza mayor
- Tanzania's Hadza men, unlike the Ache, achieve higher average returns by hunting big game more than small game.
- a big game hunter
- big game hunting
If these guys were crawling around the desert floor like in Predator with mud on their eyes and smelling like feces, maybe I'd have a little respect for the big game hunt.
- If these guys were crawling around the desert floor like in Predator with mud on their eyes and smelling like feces, maybe I'd have a little respect for the big game hunt.
Examples
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Buddy, when are you gonna realize it's the big game hunters who bag the elephants?
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Yeah, well, he's hunted big game animals all over the world.
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I'm going on a big game hunt myself.
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Big game hunting with your father.
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Time for some big-game hunting.
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I'm one of finest big game hunters in the world!
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Once upon a time Paul, tiring of life in the great city, had a grand idea - he would go big-game hunting.
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Thanks to Schningen, we now know that the first Europeans were expert big-game hunters.
Academic text (2006) -
He's climbed Everest and fought bulls and hunted every kind of big game, even three species that are now extinct.
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He has traveled to Africa several times to hunt big game like lions and elephants.
Antonyms
How Large
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an important sports event' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'big' (understood as large/major or important) combined with 'game' (a sports contest). The adjectival use of 'big' to mean 'important' is common and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer this sense.
Etymology
Big game comes from hunting. Hunters long called wild animals 'game', and the word big was used for the large animals like elephants and lions, so big game means 'large wild animals hunted for sport'.