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High muckamuck

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person in a position of power, authority, or status. Canada, US, colloquial

    "He would become well when he reformed his eating habits and submitted himself to the regimen prescribed by Dr. John HArvey Kellogg and the high muckamucks of health."

  2. 2
    an important or influential (and often overbearing) person wordnet

Etymology

From Chinook Jargon hiyu muckamuck (“plenty of food”). Compare muckamuck.

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