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A bigwig is an important person — someone with power, money, or a fancy title. You would not put this word in a careful report about a president. It is informal, a bit playful, and sometimes a little rude, as if you are looking up at the important person and not taking the title too seriously. Company bigwigs, political bigwigs, the bigwigs at head office. Though actually, it often comes with a smile: the bigwigs are coming, so tidy your desk. It is not a job name; it is a nickname for whoever sits high up.
大人物、大咖
組成From big + wig. It first showed up in the 1730s. English men with power — judges, people in parliament — used to wear wigs, and the joke is that the more important you were, the bigger the wig.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bigwignoun/ˈbɪɡ.wɪɡ/
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informalA person of importance in a group or organization.
- The company bigwig is gathering his staff together for a meeting today.
- […] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。