muckety-muck
noun
muck·ety-muck
ˈmə-kə-tē-ˌmək 
variants
or less commonly muck-a-muck
or mucky-muck
: an important and often arrogant person
Examples of muckety-muck in a Sentence
the obituary mentioned that he was a muckety-muck in several service clubs
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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.
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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
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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
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“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muckety-muck. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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