high muckamuck†

[< Chinook Jargon hyiu muckamuck, q.v.]

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a leading person in a group; big-shot.

Quotations

1903

. . . they reckon as they're the high muck-i-muck o' this location. . . .

1927

"J. B. Smith is the high-muck-a-muck, the tyee of the mining business of British Columbia."

1965

Not all the Liberal high muckamucks were as warmly defended as Favreau.