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Synonyms and Antonyms of kingpins
- a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
bigs, big boys, big cheeses, big guns, big leaguers, big shots, big wheels, big-timers, bigfeet (or bigfoots), biggies, bigwigs, fat cats, heavies, heavy hitters, heavyweights, high-muck-a-mucks (or high-muckety-mucks), honchos, kahunas, kingfish, major leaguers, muckety-mucks (also muck-a-mucks), nabobs, nawabs, nibs, nobs [chiefly British], pooh-bahs (also poo-bahs), wheels
lightweights, nobodies, nonentities, shrimp (or shrimps), twerps, whippersnappers, zeros (also zeroes), zilches
- finally nailed the mob kingpin who had been controlling all the gambling rackets in the city
administrators, commanders, directors, executives, generals, governors, hierarchs, higher-ups
leadmen, managers, overseers, principals, skippers, standard-bearers, stewards, straw bosses, superintendents, superiors, supervisors
dominators, lords, overlords, potentates, rulers, sovereigns (also sovrans)
barons, czars (also tsars), kings, magnates, moguls, presidents, princes
big cheeses, big guns, bigwigs, top dogs, top guns
coheads (or co-heads), coleaders (or co-leaders)
employers, gaffers [British], gangers [British]
subchiefs (or sub-chiefs), subdirectors (or sub-directors)
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