big dog (plural big dogs)
- A term of address to a male friend.
Hey what's up big dog?
2022 May 7, @ken_wheeler, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 26 March 2024: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
- (slang) An important or powerful person.
1992, Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 225:"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."
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, dog.