Synonyms
- big
- big boy
- big cheese
- big gun
- big leaguer
- big shot
- big wheel
- big-timer
- bigfoot
- biggie
- bigwig
- fat cat
- heavy
- heavy hitter
- heavyweight
- high-muck-a-muck
- high-muckety-muck
- honcho
- kahuna
- kingfish
- major leaguer
- muckety-muck
- muck-a-muck
- mucky-muck
- nabob
- nawab
- nibs
- nob [chiefly British]
- pooh-bah
- poo-bah
- wheel
Examples of kingpin in a Sentence
kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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Yan won the vacant UFC bantamweight belt by trouncing former UFC featherweight kingpin Jose Aldo in July 2020.
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
But, the movie suggests, he was perceived nonetheless—while sitting alone after a disastrous date—by one of the club’s most prominent members, Roy Cohn, who invites the clumsy young striver to his festive table and introduces him to two Mafia kingpins who are also seated there.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
And with that, the plot to take the city is in motion: One need only stroke a few more egos, take a little more cruelty, then dish it all back out tenfold and reap a kingpin’s reward.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
The meat of the matter is the Penguin’s drive to become the city’s criminal kingpin, which involves a good bit of lying, betrayal, some murder and more cleverness than his enemies credit him with.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
But, the movie suggests, he was perceived nonetheless—while sitting alone after a disastrous date—by one of the club’s most prominent members, Roy Cohn, who invites the clumsy young striver to his festive table and introduces him to two Mafia kingpins who are also seated there.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
And with that, the plot to take the city is in motion: One need only stroke a few more egos, take a little more cruelty, then dish it all back out tenfold and reap a kingpin’s reward.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
The meat of the matter is the Penguin’s drive to become the city’s criminal kingpin, which involves a good bit of lying, betrayal, some murder and more cleverness than his enemies credit him with.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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