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plural of kingpin
Synonyms & Antonyms of kingpins
1
one of high position or importance within a group
- a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
Synonyms for kingpins
- big boys,
- big cheeses,
- bigfeet
- (or bigfoots),
- biggies,
- big guns,
- big leaguers,
- bigs,
- big shots,
- big-timers,
- big wheels,
- 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 or mucky-mucks),
- nabobs,
- nawabs,
- nibs,
- nobs
- [chiefly British],
- pooh-bahs
- (also poo-bahs),
- wheels
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Antonyms for kingpins
- lightweights,
- nobodies,
- nonentities,
- shrimp
- (or shrimps),
- twerps,
- whippersnappers,
- zeros
- (also zeroes),
- zilches
2
the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do
- finally nailed the mob kingpin who had been controlling all the gambling rackets in the city
Synonyms for kingpins
Words Related to kingpins
- leadmen,
- managers,
- overseers,
- principals,
- skippers,
- standard-bearers,
- stewards,
- straw bosses,
- superintendents,
- superiors,
- supervisors
- dominators,
- lords,
- overlords,
- potentates,
- rulers,
- sovereigns
- (also sovrans)
- coheads
- (or co-heads),
- coleaders
- (or co-leaders)
- subchiefs
- (or sub-chiefs),
- subdirectors
- (or sub-directors)
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