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also muck-a-muck
or mucky-muck
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.
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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
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
Noun
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Any frustration the Greek shipping magnate felt was understandable.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Descendants of Mary Lily Kenan – Henry Flagler’s third wife – continue the tradition begun in 1895, when the railroad magnate built the Palm Beach Inn on the site to complement his nearby Royal Poinciana Hotel.—
Thomas Swick,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2025
Noun
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Harry heads back to the yard, where a group of Kevin's Czechoslovakian hired heavies are preparing for war.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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On Twin Peaks, Strong plays Jones, the right-hand woman for one of the series’ heavies.—
Drew Mackie,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Profitability—the point at which a film’s investors begin to see returns—is also of the utmost importance to studio bigwigs, sometimes to movie-lovers’ chagrin.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 Apr. 2025
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On Ransom Canyon, Minka Kelly's Quinn vacillates between feelings for wealthy rancher and town bigwig, Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), and longtime crush, salt-of-the-earth rancher, Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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On Tuesday, April 29, the zoo released a statement sharing how keepers feed the vulture chick born on Feb. 25, who is the first king vulture hatched at the zoo in three decades.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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The king is always right; his servants, not so much.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, foundation models and synthetic content tools continued to absorb the lion’s share.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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German magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Uwe Horn in real life became Las Vegas stars along with their white lions and tigers.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Speaking of bandits, Leland Stanford famously jumpstarted his profits from miners into even greater swindles as a railroad baron, California Governor, and US Senator.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Apr. 2025
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Pauline and the baron maintained separate apartments in Paris and would see each other by appointment so that their relationship would maintain its sparkle and excitement.—
Ralph Rucci,
Robb Report,
20 Apr. 2025
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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
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
Cite this Entry
“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muckety-muck. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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