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kingpinnoun one of high position or importance within a groupa police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer, big shot, big wheel, big-timer, bigfoot, biggie, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck(or high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish, major leaguer, muckety-muck(also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck), nabob, nawab, nibs, nob(chiefly British), pooh-bah(also poo-bah), wheel baron, czar(also tsar or tzar), king, lion, magnate, mogul, prince, princess, queen, tycoonVIP lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, shrimp, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch inferior, subordinate, underlingmediocrity, obscurity the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to dofinally nailed the mob kingpin who had been controlling all the gambling rackets in the city boss, boss man, captain, chief, foreman, head, headman, helmsman, honcho, jefe, leader, master, taskmaster directress, mistressadministrator, commander, director, executive, general, governor, hierarch, higher-upleadman, manager, overseer, principal, skipper, standard-bearer, steward, straw boss, superintendent, superior, supervisordominator, lord, overlord, potentate, ruler, sovereign(also sovran)figureheadslave driverbaron, czar(also tsar or tzar), king, magnate, mogul, president, princebig cheese, big gun, bigwig, top dog, top guncohead, coleaderemployer, gaffer(British), ganger(British)micromanagersubchief, subdirector dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subject, subordinate, underling in 1773 |