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Big area additive manufacturing
Big area additive manufacturing (BAAM) is a large-format polymer 3D printing process developed in 2014 by Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Cincinnati Incorporated, a machine tool builder near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Big Ass Fans
Big Ass Fans, also known as Big Ass Solutions, is an American manufacturer of high-volume, low-speed ceiling fans, coolers, and heaters based in Lexington, Kentucky.
Big Ass Lake
Big Ass Lake is an officially named small lake in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada, also called a glacial lake near Moose River Gold Mines; named March 5, 1953, CGNDB key CACXC, coordinates 44.92555, -62.932829.
Big Ass Stadium Tour
The Big Ass Stadium Tour (also styled The BIG ASS Stadium Tour) was a 2025 co-headlining tour by Post Malone and Jelly Roll across North America and Europe.
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.), London rock band formed in 1984 by ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones with Don Letts, Greg Roberts, Dan Donovan, and Leo Williams; early rock samplers behind 'E=MC2', from This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) to F-Punk (1995), reunited 2011.
Big B (film)
Big B (2007) is a Malayalam action crime thriller, Amal Neerad's directorial debut, starring Mammootty as gangster Bilal John Kurishingal. An unofficial remake of Four Brothers, it flopped initially, became a cult classic, and spawned the long-delayed sequel Bilal.
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Big Bad Beetleborgs, retitled Beetleborgs Metallix for season 2, was a Saban Entertainment Fox Kids series (1996–1998, 53+35 episodes) adapting Toei's Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto footage about kids turned comic-book heroes.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a swing revival band formed in Ventura, California, in 1989 by Scotty Morris, named after an Albert Collins autograph; it broke out via the 1996 film Swingers, went gold in 1998, and played Super Bowl XXXIII.
Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is the archetypal fairy-tale wolf villain of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs (ATU 333, 123, 124), analyzed by Jürgens and Hackett as a stereotype formed by merging wolf behavior with the shadow archetype of evil.
Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf's Revenge
The Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf's Revenge is a Bolliger & Mabillard family inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, opened May 23, 2025; a spiritual successor to the 1984 original Big Bad Wolf, with 2,500+ feet of track at 40 mph.
Big Baller Brand
Big Baller Brand (BBB) is an apparel and footwear company founded in 2016 by LaVar and Tina Ball in Chino Hills, California, known for Lonzo Ball's $495 ZO2 signature shoe, its NCAA-rules controversy, and later legal disputes with co-founder Gregory Alan Foster.
Big band
Big band: a large jazz ensemble of ten to twenty-plus players in saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm sections playing written arrangements; dominant in the 1935–1945 swing era under Ellington, Basie, and Goodman, declining in the late 1940s and continuing as a concert format.
Big band bandleaders
Big band bandleaders are the leaders of large jazz orchestras, from 1920s dance bands through the 1935–1945 swing era to today. Key figures include Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and modern leaders like Maria Schneider.
Big Bang
The Big Bang, or Big Bang model, is the prevailing cosmological theory in which the universe expanded and cooled from an extremely hot, dense state 13.8 billion years ago.
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Big Bang nucleosynthesis, also called primordial nucleosynthesis, is the production of the lightest nuclei, chiefly helium-4, deuterium, helium-3, and lithium-7, during the universe's first minutes of cosmic time.
Big Barda
Big Barda (Barda Free), DC Comics New God superheroine created by Jack Kirby, debuting in Mister Miracle #4 (1971): Apokolips-raised ex-leader of the Female Furies, wife of Mister Miracle, wielder of the Mega-Rod, member of the Justice League and Birds of Prey.
Big Bash League
Big Bash League (BBL, KFC BBL): Australia's men's domestic T20 cricket league, founded 2011 by Cricket Australia, eight city teams, summer season, Power Surge rule, Perth Scorchers most titles with six.
Big bath (accounting)
A big bath is an earnings-management practice in which a company loads impairments, write-downs, and restructuring charges into one period so future earnings appear higher.
Big Bear Lake, California
Big Bear Lake is an incorporated San Bernardino County, California resort city at about 6,759 feet elevation, population about 5,000, built around a snow-fed reservoir dammed in 1884 and 1912, known for Big Bear Mountain Resort skiing and lake recreation.
Big beat
Big beat is a UK electronic dance music genre of the mid-to-late 1990s, named after Fatboy Slim's Brighton club night, built on sped-up breakbeats, funk and soul samples, and popularized by the Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, and Fatboy Slim.
Big Beautiful Woman
BBW (Big Beautiful Woman) is a positive term for a plus-size woman, coined in 1979 by Carole Shaw with BBW Magazine; the male counterpart is BHM, and usage spans dating, fashion, and adult contexts.
Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Bell in the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London, striking the hours there since 1859.
Big Bend (Florida)
The Big Bend (Florida) is the Gulf Coast region where the peninsula meets the Panhandle, from Anclote Key to St. Marks, also called the Nature Coast; a pristine, karst-and-seagrass coastline hit by Hurricane Idalia in 2023.
Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park: 801,163-acre Texas park on the Rio Grande border, established 1944, largest protected Chihuahuan Desert in the US, famed for geology and Quetzalcoatlus fossils.
Big Bend Station
Big Bend Station is a power plant owned by Tampa Electric in Apollo Beach, Florida, opened in 1970 and partially converted from coal to natural gas in 2023.
Big Bertha (howitzer)
Big Bertha, officially the M-Gerät and nicknamed for Bertha Krupp, was a German 42-cm siege howitzer that crushed the forts of Liège, Namur, and Antwerp in 1914.
Big Bet (카지노)
Big Bet (카지노, Casino; also King of Savvy) is a 2022-2023 Disney+ Korean crime drama by Kang Yoon-sung starring Choi Min-sik as casino mogul Cha Moo-sik in the Philippines, with Son Suk-ku; two 8-episode seasons, Blue Dragon Best Drama winner.
Big Bird
Big Bird is the 8-foot-2-inch yellow canary Muppet of Sesame Street, designed by Jim Henson, performed by Caroll Spinney 1969–2018 and Matt Vogel since, written as a 6½-year-old child.
Big Black
Big Black: American noise rock band founded by Steve Albini in Evanston, Illinois (1981 or 1982 per sources), active to 1987; Roland TR-606 drum machine, albums Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987), key influence on industrial and noise rock.
Big Boi
Big Boi, born Antwan André Patton in Savannah, Georgia, is the OutKast rapper and solo artist behind Sir Lucious Left Foot (2010), Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, and Boomiverse.