"big dog" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Hey what's up big dog?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Shaquille O'Neal, quoting Kobe Bryant, Shaq Talks Back, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, page 241",
          "text": "\"Thanks, big dog,\" he said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 7, @ken_wheeler, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-03-26",
          "text": "My 7yo was cursing and I was ok big dog you wanna cuss, let's hit the Stu, show the world that pottymouth, and she balked lol",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A term of address to a male friend."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 225",
          "text": "\"Seem like to me Deck goin round shit-disturbin, what it is. An he too puss to go messin with the big dogs, so he schemin on us. Shit, man, I take that motherfucker down myself, cept he ain't never out that bodyguard of his, an word say that dude one way bad sucker.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An important or powerful person."
      ],
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          "powerful",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) An important or powerful person."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog."
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          "big",
          "big#English"
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          "dog",
          "dog#English"
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      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 18 82",
          "word": "dawg"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 18 82",
          "word": "road dog"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "big dog"
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      "form": "big dogs",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "dawg"
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    {
      "word": "road dog"
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        {
          "text": "Hey what's up big dog?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Shaquille O'Neal, quoting Kobe Bryant, Shaq Talks Back, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, page 241",
          "text": "\"Thanks, big dog,\" he said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 7, @ken_wheeler, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-03-26",
          "text": "My 7yo was cursing and I was ok big dog you wanna cuss, let's hit the Stu, show the world that pottymouth, and she balked lol",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A term of address to a male friend."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 225",
          "text": "\"Seem like to me Deck goin round shit-disturbin, what it is. An he too puss to go messin with the big dogs, so he schemin on us. Shit, man, I take that motherfucker down myself, cept he ain't never out that bodyguard of his, an word say that dude one way bad sucker.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An important or powerful person."
      ],
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        "(slang) An important or powerful person."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog."
      ],
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  "word": "big dog"
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