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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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This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Lauder, a billionaire, philanthropist and son of the makeup magnate Estée Lauder, founded the initiative in 2022 as a way to increase access to Jewish day schools in America.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Gabriel Byrne’s new heavy, the Chancellor, hisses to Castañeda’s doomed daddy as Eve watches in horror.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Kevin's wife Bella (Lara Pulver) is meeting her estranged dad, an apparent government bigwig with powerful friends.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Programmatic ads from a number of prominent companies, including tech stalwarts like Asana and Oracle, ecommerce bigwig Net-A-Porter, makeup giant Sephora, and resort chain Kalahari Resorts, appeared while WIRED was monitoring these websites.—
Kate Knibbs,
WIRED,
15 Jan. 2025
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The cushy king beds are topped with $23,000 mattresses from 100-year-old luxury Swedish label Duxiana.—
Katie Nanton,
Travel + Leisure,
12 June 2025
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Both have happened in South Florida and this is why: High tides invade coastal communities, parks, yards and even some homes – most often during seasonal king tides, the highest tides of the year.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
10 June 2025
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Additional successes for the program include a significant increase in the West African lion population, which has doubled in the park since Panthera and the National Parks Directorate began working on initiatives.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
13 June 2025
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That is why the leaders of CPB, NPR and PBS have been emphasizing the impact of the cuts on local stations, which get the lion’s share of the federal funds.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
12 June 2025
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Each part of the plan requires Zsa-zsa and now Liesl to persuade a number of industrial barons and powerful bankers to help finance the project.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and other tech barons like to prophesy a future in which AI cures cancer and makes everyone prosperous.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 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
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“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muckety-muck. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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