variants also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck

Examples of muckety-muck in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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

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“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muckety-muck. Accessed 13 Oct. 2024.

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