A Canadian term (Southern term, what bleeds into upstate Ny unintentionally...)for " Big shooter" or someone who is going too hard, too fast. Also see; someone who is clearly outmatched by your people's drinking capabilities, and/or intellectual prowess thus, reiterating the fact that they are indeed as low brow as you thought they were/are -no matter how long you have been friends... i.e. big shootsey wootsey
Phrase coined by Foster Hewitt (1902-85), one of the first hockey broadcasters in Canada, beginning in 1923 and going on to call the play-by-play for Toronto Maple Leafs games for some forty years.