| 单词 | big top |
| 释义 | big topSEE SYNONYMS FOR big top ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe largest or main tent of a circus. a circus. Origin of big topAn Americanism dating back to 1890–95 Words nearby big topbig tent, Bigtha, big-ticket, big time, big toe, big top, big tree, biguanide, big up, big wheel, big White Chief Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for big topbig top noun informalthe main tent of a circus the circus itself Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with big topbig top The main tent of a circus, as in The high-wire act is almost always in the big top. [c. 1840] Underworld slang for a maximum-security prison, as in He was sentenced to ten years in the big top. [1950s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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