big shot

Big shot is a slang term meaning "important or influential person", and is commonly used to describe people such as VIPs, executives, business magnates or media moguls. Big Shot can refer to:

• "Big Shot", an amusement ride on top of the Stratosphere Las Vegas tower
• The "Big Shot" of Africa, the character of a wealthy businessman who front rows (leads) a second line for the Krewe of Zulu in the New Orleans Mardi Gras carnival
• Big Shot, a New Orleans-based soda brand by National Beverage subsidiary Winnsboro Beverage Packers, based on the carnival character

Fiction

• Big Shot, a 1940s comic book series.
• Big Shot, an animated superhero character on the television show The Tick
• Big Shot, a fictional TV show in the anime Cowboy Bebop
• The Big Shot, the United States working title of the 1930 film Doughboys starring Buster Keaton
• The Big Shot, a 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart
• Big Shots, a 1987 film by Lorimar Productions
• Big Shots, a 2001 film featuring a portrayal of the Russian Mafia
• Big Shots, a television series picked up by ABC for the 2007-2008 US television season
• "Big Shots", an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Big Shot, former mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers until 1996

Music

• "Big Shot", a song by Billy Joel, from the album 52nd Street
• "Big Shot", a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from their 1967 album Gorilla
• "Big Shot", a song by The Beat (The English Beat) from their 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It
• "Big Shot", a song by theSTART from their Death Via Satellite EP.
• "Big Shot", a song by Kill Hannah
• Big$hot, a dubstep/grime musician from UK.
• Big Shots, an album by Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf, or the follow-up Big Shots Bonus EP
• Big Shot!, Terry Bogard's theme used in some of Fatal Fury and The King Of Fighters games.

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