big mama

big mama
(often caps.) Informal.
1. a man's sweetheart, girlfriend, or wife.
2. a woman regarded as the head of a family.
3. the female founder or a leading female member of a company, organization, movement, etc.
4. Chiefly Southern U.S. grandmother.
[1950-55]

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