muckety-muck

noun

muck·ety-muck ˈmə-kə-tē-ˌmək

variants or less commonly muck-a-muck

ˈmə-kə-ˌmək

or mucky-muck

ˈmə-kē-ˌmək

Synonyms of muckety-muck next

: an important and often arrogant person

Examples of muckety-muck in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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

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