high-muck-a-muck

noun

ˌhī-ˈmə-ki-ˌmək How to pronounce high-muck-a-muck (audio)
variants or high-muckety-muck
Definition of high-muck-a-mucknext
as in heavy
one of high position or importance within a group failed to pass muster with the country club's high-muck-a-mucks

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  1. heavy
  2. big
  3. lion
  4. nawab
  5. wheel
  6. king
Noun
  • Pace is essentially the heavy of the movie, playing the brutal chief hunter for the network airing the game shows and tasked by the producer with tracking down Powell’s character.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • His heavies answered the call, putting on an impressive blocking scheme that freed Franklin quite often.
    Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of heavy
Noun
  • Shop the top 50 picks below and save big now before the sales end this week.
    Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But there are also several bigs who will be unrestricted free agents, including Brionna Jones, Cheyenne Parker-Tyus, Brittney Griner, Nneka Ogwumike and Tina Charles who could start immediately.
    Ben Pickman, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of big
Noun
  • There was no telling what to expect from Margin Call director J. C. Chandor’s take on Kraven the Hunter, a Spider-Man rogue from the ‘60s best known for showing off his abs while sporting a vest fashioned out of a lion’s head.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
  • An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of lion
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  • The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • In 1757, the East India Company commander Robert Clive defeated Bengal’s local ruler, or nawab, in battle and consolidated the company’s power in the province.
    Maya Jasanoff, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
Definition of nawab
Noun
  • The back of the car is completely destroyed and at least one of its wheels is off.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The idea of being on two wheels, on a saddle that sits upon enough fuel to set you on fire, a combustion engine that’s made out of a thousand moving parts ... the road, the ability to be one with the elements ...
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of wheel
Noun
  • In both cases, the invaders found, hidden in a large room behind a hidden door, a stunning quantity of treasures representing the wealth of generations of kings.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Under the terms of his HBO contract, he was not allowed to appear in another returning series, meaning his only option was to play Anglo-Saxon king Harold, who famously died on the battlefield in 1066 after being shot in the eye with an arrow.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of king
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