Usually means: Large, influential male figure, leader.
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  1. big man: Merriam-Webster
  2. big-man: Wordnik
  3. big man: Wiktionary
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  1. big-man: Anthropological Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Big man: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. big man: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (big man)

noun:  (anthropology) A male individual in a tribe who has great status and influence, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia.
noun:  (politics) A corrupt, autocratic ruler.
noun:  Synonym of big guy (“term of endearment”)

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