New to me, obviously. Used to write of one politician upstaging another in New Hampshire.noun, plural big·feet, big·foots.
1. a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
2. to assert one's authority or influence (over): lobbyists bigfooting around the Senate; a reporter bigfooted by a senior correspondent.
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I just came across this in an article on The Atlantic and thought I'd share, in case you don't already know this usage.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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I cotton to the monster that Perry assures us is mythical. Are you sure about this Perry? Big foot has been sighted in your neck of the woods.
I have no interest in using the word as reported by Slava. It is true that clowns usually have extremely big feet.
I have no interest in using the word as reported by Slava. It is true that clowns usually have extremely big feet.
It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.
Re: Bigfoot
I used Google and the Google N-Gram viewer to look for examples of "big foot" used as described above, and I found some examples:
Feb 2014:
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/ar ... t-governor
March 2011
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finke ... -bob-gates
Aug 2012
http://www.leftlanenews.com/angered-man ... rmont.html
Note that all of these examples use "big foot" as a verb.
Feb 2014:
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/ar ... t-governor
March 2011
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finke ... -bob-gates
Aug 2012
http://www.leftlanenews.com/angered-man ... rmont.html
Note that all of these examples use "big foot" as a verb.
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Thanks for these bnjtokyo. It is interesting that it's been around since at least 2011. The last link you give does use it in a different way, though. It is used as a verb, but is placed in quotes, so the author is showing us that it's being used metaphorically. Here it's the idea of stomping on the police cars, as if by a giant monster. As it was a monster truck, that's quite appropriate.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Re: Bigfoot
Philip, we have lots of clowns and big feet in our area. Black panthers are regularly spotted although a smart wildlife guy I know assures me they are impossible since cougars lack the necessary melanin.
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