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Big·foot

(bĭg′fo͝ot′)

A very large, hairy, humanlike creature purported to inhabit the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Also called Sasquatch.

[From the size of the footprints believed to belong to it.]

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bigfoot

(ˈbɪɡˌfʊt)

(Journalism & Publishing) US and Canadian a well-known reporter

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Big•foot

(ˈbɪgˌfʊt)
n., pl. -feet (for 2).
v. n.

1. Sasquatch.

2. (usu. l.c.) a prominent or influential person, esp. a journalist or news analyst.

v.t.

3. (usu. l.c.) to apply one's authority to as a Bigfoot: bigfooting his name onto an article he didn't write.

[1960–65, Amer.]

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Bigfoot - large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada

Sasquatch

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Excavated by a team from the University of Kansas in 1998 from the fossil-rich Black Hills region of Wyoming, the foot's fossil was nicknamed "Bigfoot" by the researchers owing to its size.

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To start off with, I didn't think it was a Bigfoot or anything like that, until I watched how it walked and the way it hugged the hedgerow.

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