muckety muck
Noun
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Noun
muckety muck (plural muckety mucks)
- (US, colloquial) A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status. [from 20th c.]
- 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage 2018, p. 88:
- Consequently, there have been times when the muckety-mucks at Merriam-Webster have requested that we all mark every third or fifth word in at least one source just to fill our files with words that would not usually catch our eye.
- 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage 2018, p. 88:
- See Thesaurus:important person
- big cheese
- big enchilada
- big kahuna
- bigwig
- big wheel
- grand poobah
- head honcho
- kingpin
- top banana
- top dog
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