pooh-bahs

noun

variants also poo-bahs
plural of pooh-bah
as in heavyweights
one of high position or importance within a group an annual clambake that attracts political pooh-bahs from around the state

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Recent Examples of pooh-bahs Instead of improving classroom instruction, education pooh-bahs try to hide their failures by dumbing down standards. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pooh-bahs
  1. heavyweights
  2. bigs
  3. heavies
  4. magnates
  5. bigwigs
Noun
  • Lawrence clocked early on that Williams had the chops to hold her own against heavyweights like Harrison Ford.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • There is no denying Kosmera aims to challenge hypercar heavyweights like Rimac and Koenigsegg, as well as its main domestic rival, BYD.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of heavyweights
Noun
  • After a dominant summer in Triple-A, Zac Veen is coming back to the bigs.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Pick-and-rolls at the top of the floor with bigs, pick-and-rolls with smalls.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of bigs
Noun
  • In any year, in any culture, there are no antagonists (save for Nazis) better suited as action cinema heavies; rooting against child trafficking lowlifes is moral, easy, and best of all, a completely guiltless pleasure.
    — Andy Crump, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
  • However, on season 2 of Twin Peaks, the actress played Miss Jones, the right-hand woman for one of the series' heavies, Thomas Eckhardt (the late David Warner).
    — Drew Mackie, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of heavies
Noun
  • The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
    — Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of magnates
Noun
  • Stevens boasts the support of a growing list of establishment bigwigs—including Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and the state’s outgoing senator, Gary Peters—who clearly view her as more electable.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • However, after impressing bigwigs at Universal with his short film Amblin’, Spielberg put his education aside in 1968 to pursue filmmaking.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
Definition of bigwigs

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