muckety-muck

noun

ˈmə-kə-tē-ˌmək How to pronounce muckety-muck (audio)
variants also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck
Definition of muckety-mucknext
as in heavyweight
one of high position or importance within a group the obituary mentioned that he was a muckety-muck in several service clubs

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Recent Examples of muckety-muck This after the high muckety-mucks of the party (folks named Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, James Carville and others) executed a backroom coup against President Joe Biden that undid the clear mandate of millions of Democratic primary voters. — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024 Four years earlier, movie muckety-mucks had collected here to found the academy, and here, as legend tells it, MGM’s art director, Cedric Gibbons, sketched out the Oscar statuette on a linen hotel napkin. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muckety-muck
  1. magnate
  2. heavy
  3. bigwig
  4. king
  5. lion
  6. baron
  7. queen
Noun
  • Hennessy, grandson of the liquor magnate, was surrounded by Cognac vessels growing up.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Real estate magnate Lee Shau Kee held on to his perch as the city’s second-richest with a net worth of $29.2 billion.
    — Jane Ho, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of magnate
Noun
  • They’re supposed to be the reinforcements, the heavies, personally recruited by Quinn — a fugitive Army Intelligence Colonel! — and installed at Beck’s place, just like Paulie.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The other students find the burden of imperfect English heavy.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of heavy
Noun
  • The largest is the Ratliff family, North Carolina blue bloods led by Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a business bigwig with no interest in any of the resort’s spiritual healing exercises.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Here’s a look at the rock stars, politicians and business bigwigs who are neighbors of the 45th—and 47th—president.
    — Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Definition of bigwig
Noun
  • Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This year, Todd Hurley is Mr. Pat, the parade’s king, and Mary Fischer is Miss Shamrock, the parade’s queen.
    — Craig Lassig, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of king
Noun
  • Canada’s Leverage Of the 50 critical minerals, Canada owns the lion’s share of production of the top five--lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese—collectively, thanks to its domestic industry and its interest in international mines.
    — Dipka Bhambhani, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • And this does not even factor in living expenses, which account for the lion’s share of college costs.
    — Braulio Colón, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of lion
Noun
  • Tech barons are moving forward with artificial intelligence programs at full speed, without regard for ethics, intellectual property rights, risks to our society, or energy demands.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Forest Home Cemetery is the final resting place for many of Milwaukee’s social elites and beer barons.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of baron
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    — Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Definition of queen

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