"big bucks" meaning in English

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          "text": "The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.",
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          "ref": "1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 64",
          "text": "Ohio always was home, where his family and friends were, and such is the man’s allegiance to Ohio State that he once donated the equivalent of a full scholarship back to the school—and this was before he was making the big, big bucks.",
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          "ref": "1999, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, page 96",
          "text": "But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman",
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          "ref": "2006, Ann Coulter, Godless",
          "text": "After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?",
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        "Lots of money."
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        "(idiomatic) Lots of money."
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