Big shot, briefly
The crossword clue "Big shot, briefly" is answered by VIP, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
VIP
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VIP answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for VIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by VIP, most used first.
- Big shot - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig, for short - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- A-lister - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Bigwig, briefly - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of treatment - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Big wheel - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Red-carpet type - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Big shot, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- CEO, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Pooh-bah - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Red carpet walker - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Big bird - EMU, used 212 times
- Big fuss - ADO, used 194 times
- California's Big ___ - SUR, used 162 times
- Up to, briefly - TIL, used 117 times
- "Big Blue" - IBM, used 110 times
- Big galoot - APE, used 103 times
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