big time

big time (plural big times)

1. The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment.
   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton‎:

     This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

• (highest level in a field): big league, major league

• big-time, bigtime
• big-timer

English big time

big time

1. (postpositive, informal) to a great extent, very
   • 2012, Astrid Heise-Fjeldgren, Kys og kanel 4 - Jagten på Joe, Gyldendal A/S (ISBN 9788702129328)

     Fordi jeg kastede op big time den aften.

     Because I threw up a lot that evening.

   • 2010, Maria Hirse, Når mad er din fjende, Lindhardt og Ringhof (ISBN 9788711416914)

     Jeg havde fucket op big time, ...

     I had really fucked up, ...

Often in connection with the verb fucke op.