Synonyms
- 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
- high-muckety-muck
- honcho
- kahuna
- kingfish
- major leaguer
- muckety-muck
- muck-a-muck
- mucky-muck
- nabob
- nawab
- nibs
- nob [chiefly British]
- pooh-bah
- poo-bah
- wheel
Examples of kingpin in a Sentence
kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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The state’s inability to present an airtight case for Thug as kingpin says a RICO charge can demonize defendants by implicating them in bigger crimes than prosecutors are able to immediately prove, jamming up livelihoods and breaking up families.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Bravo kingpin Andy Cohen acknowledges that his blockbuster Real Housewives reality franchise is a direct descendant of the comedy-drama.
—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2024
In the over-the-top new melodrama from French writer-director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), Gascón plays a dangerous Mexico City drug kingpin named Manitas who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to fulfill his dream of being a woman, becoming the titular Emilia.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
The cartel, which is run by a kingpin called El Padre, operates near the California/Mexico border, so between that and the private aircraft tracks in the field nearby, the working theory is that Torres is on his way to the West Coast.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Bravo kingpin Andy Cohen acknowledges that his blockbuster Real Housewives reality franchise is a direct descendant of the comedy-drama.
—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2024
In the over-the-top new melodrama from French writer-director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), Gascón plays a dangerous Mexico City drug kingpin named Manitas who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to fulfill his dream of being a woman, becoming the titular Emilia.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
The cartel, which is run by a kingpin called El Padre, operates near the California/Mexico border, so between that and the private aircraft tracks in the field nearby, the working theory is that Torres is on his way to the West Coast.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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