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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is a Disney mine-train roller coaster, the 'wildest ride in the wilderness,' designed by Tony Baxter; opened at Disneyland in 1979, with versions at Walt Disney World (1980), Tokyo Disneyland (1987), and Disneyland Paris (1992).
Big Time Adolescence
Big Time Adolescence is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Jason Orley, starring Pete Davidson and Griffin Gluck; it premiered at Sundance 2019 and streamed on Hulu from March 13, 2020.
Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush (BTR) is an American boy band formed in 2009 for a Nickelodeon TV series, with Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, and Logan Henderson; three Billboard Top 20 albums, 2014 hiatus, 2021 reunion, and 2023 album Another Life.
Big Time Rush (group)
Big Time Rush (BTR), American boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2009 for the Nickelodeon series of the same name; members Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, Logan Henderson; albums BTR, Elevate, 24/Seven, Another Life; 2021 reunion.
Big Tobacco
Big Tobacco is the collective name for the small group of companies that dominate the global tobacco industry, led by Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco.
Big Top Pee-wee
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) is Randal Kleiser's Paramount comedy, the second Pee-wee Herman film after Pee-wee's Big Adventure, starring Paul Reubens as a farmer whose yard receives a storm-blown circus; it grossed $14.9 million and was poorly reviewed.
Big Trouble (2002 film)
Big Trouble is a 2002 American ensemble comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, based on Dave Barry's 1999 novel, and starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, and Zooey Deschanel.
Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China is John Carpenter's 1986 action-comedy-fantasy starring Kurt Russell as trucker Jack Burton, who joins Dennis Dun's Wang Chi against sorcerer Lo Pan (James Hong) beneath San Francisco's Chinatown; a box-office flop that became a cult classic.
Big Tujunga Dam
Big Tujunga Dam is a concrete arch dam on Big Tujunga Creek in Los Angeles County, California, built in 1931 for flood control and groundwater recharge.
Big two
Big Two (鋤大地, Choh Dai Di, Da Lao Er, Pusoy Dos) is a four-player Chinese climbing card game, 13 cards each, where the 2 is the highest rank, the 3 of diamonds opens, and players shed singles, pairs, triples, and five-card poker hands.
Big Tymers
Big Tymers were a New Orleans hip hop duo of Birdman (Brian Williams) and producer Mannie Fresh on Cash Money Records, active 1998-2005, with platinum albums I Got That Work and Hood Rich and the Grammy-nominated single Still Fly.
Big U
Big U is the nickname of Eugene Henley Jr., a Los Angeles music executive, community activist, and former Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips leader, indicted in 2025 on federal RICO charges.
Big Valley Jamboree
Big Valley Jamboree (BVJ) is a four-day country music festival in Camrose, Alberta, held at the Camrose Regional Exhibition grounds since 1993 after starting in Big Valley in 1992; about 25,000 daily attendees, operated with Country Thunder.
Big Van Vader
Big Van Vader (real name Leon Allen White, also Bull Power) was an American professional wrestler and former NFL lineman, a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
Big W
Big W is an Australian discount department store chain owned by Woolworths Group, operating 178 stores that sell toys, home goods, apparel, and technology at everyday low prices.
Big Walk
Big Walk: cooperative online walker-talker by House House (Untitled Goose Game), published by Panic, released August 4, 2026 for PC, PS5, and Switch 2; 2-12 players, proximity voice chat as core mechanic.
Big Watt Digital LLC
Big Watt Digital LLC is a Delaware company, incorporated in 2021, that builds power generation and data center infrastructure for AI and previously ran Bitcoin mining.
Big wave surfing
Big wave surfing: riding waves of roughly 20 feet or more, from Hawaiian paddle-in roots at Waimea Bay to tow-in surfing at Jaws and Nazaré; records, The Eddie, and injury risk.
Big Well (Kansas)
The Big Well, listed as Greensburg Well, is a hand-dug well in Greensburg, Kansas, dug in 1887 and 1888 and now the centerpiece of the Big Well Museum.
Big West Conference
Big West Conference (formerly Pacific Coast Athletic Association), NCAA Division I conference founded July 1, 1969, headquartered in Irvine, California. 12 full members in 2026-27 after adding California Baptist, Sacramento State, and Utah Valley; Hawai'i departs 2026, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara leave for the WCC in 2027.
Big Wild
Big Wild is the electronic music project of American producer Jackson Stell, a Massachusetts native based in Los Angeles, known for melodic, vocal-driven dance music and albums including Superdream (2019).
Big Willie Style
Big Willie Style is Will Smith's debut solo album, released November 25, 1997 on Columbia Records; a 16-track pop-rap record sampling funk and disco hits, with singles Men in Black, Gettin' Jiggy Wit It, Miami, and Just the Two of Us, certified nine times platinum in the US.
Big World (小小的我) (film)
Big World (小小的我) is a 2024 Chinese drama directed by Yang Lina, written by You Xiaoying, starring Jackson Yee as Liu Chunhe, a 20-year-old with cerebral palsy. Released 27 December 2024; grossed about 765.9 million yuan; Tokyo festival audience award.
Big Yam Dreaming
Big Yam Dreaming is a 1995 monochrome painting by the Anmatyerr artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, depicting her pencil yam Dreaming and held in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Big year
Big year: a birding challenge to identify as many bird species as possible in one calendar year within a defined area; governed by ABA rules; world record 6,852 species (Arjan Dwarshuis, 2016).
Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow Taxi: Joni Mitchell environmental protest song from Ladies of the Canyon (1970), inspired by a Hawaii parking lot view; famous for 'paved paradise', the Foster Botanical Garden tree museum, and covers by Dylan, Amy Grant, and Counting Crows.
Big Zuu
Big Zuu (Zuhair Hassan, born 1995), West London grime MC of the MTP crew with cousin AJ Tracey; albums Content With Content and Navigate; BAFTA-winning TV chef, host of Big Zuu's Big Eats on Dave.
BIG-bench
BIG-bench (Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark) is a crowdsourced benchmark of more than 200 tasks for large language models, introduced in June 2022 to test what models can do.
BIG-Bench Hard
BIG-Bench Hard (BBH) is a benchmark of 23 challenging multi-step reasoning tasks from BIG-Bench, introduced by Google researchers in 2022; with chain-of-thought prompting, Codex exceeded the average human rater on 17 of 23 tasks.
Big-box store
A big-box store, also called a supercenter or superstore, is a physically large chain retail establishment, a format that became ubiquitous in the United States after 1962.