variants also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck

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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. 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
  • Why the disparity in box office results between the social media heavyweights?
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Rountree shared his thoughts on how Pereira would perform as a heavyweight.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Designer Joe Nahem creatively combined two units at the Continuum South Beach for the late real estate magnate and eight-time Tony-winning Broadway producer Luigi Caiola.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Known as the Uplands Mansion, the palatial home was built in 1917 for the grandson for railroad magnate Charles Crocker.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of all the runway shows during Paris Fashion Week, no front row is as buzzy and celeb-heavy as Dior's.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In February, Mayor Harrell, at the behest of local heavies such as Amazon and Microsoft, led the opposition to a referendum on another tax on those companies which would help pay for public, mixed-income housing in a city that desperately needs it.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Upset about being undercut, the Texas bigwig resolves to put Georgie out of business.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Connect with people on every level, from team members to bigwigs.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The science, literature and economics prizes are presented to the laureates by the Swedish king at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, followed by a lavish banquet at city hall.
    USA Today, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The accommodations offer resort, coastline, or ocean views; king or double queen beds; balconies or ground-level patios; and optional Club level.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond the mental clarity and razor sharp focus, taking mushrooms like lion’s mane also comes without many of the potential side effects that are typically associated with stimulants like jitters, energy spikes, and mid-day crashes.
    Brianna Peters, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That Harbaugh has garnered the lion’s share of criticism for the Ravens’ 1-3 start isn’t at all surprising.
    Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So no wonder that his engagement with the human cost of rapid industrialization in early 20th century Bohemia fed into his depiction in the novel of social conditions in robber-baron America.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Their father, beer baron Sir Benjamin Guinness — the grandson of the founder of the Guinness Brewery, Arthur Guinness — has died, and their futures will now be determined by their father's will.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Congratulations to Roman on raising two successful queens!
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Another important aspect is the South Sudanese tribes that were filmed look like kings and queens in their colors and in their beads.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muckety-muck. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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