kingpin
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Synonyms & Antonyms for kingpin
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 (or high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish, major leaguer, muckety-muck (also muck-a-muck), nabob, nawab, nibs, nob [chiefly British], pooh-bah (also poo-bah), wheel
Antonyms
lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, shrimp, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch
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To everyone declaring Clemson the new kingpin of college football, don't forget that team from Tuscaloosa. — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, "Alabama vs. Duke 2019 live stream; time, TV channel, odds, watch online," 31 Aug. 2019 New York -- Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died Sunday. — CBS News, "Robert Morgenthau, longest-serving Manhattan DA who inspired âLaw and Orderâ character, has died at 99," 22 July 2019 Morgenthau, who died Sunday at 99, just 10 days before turning 100, spent nearly half his life jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean. — Fox News, "Former Manhattan DA Morgenthau dead at 99," 22 July 2019 His life sentence may finally bring an end to the drug kingpinâs notorious and prolific criminal career. — Catherine Kim, Vox, "Vox Sentences: A global health emergency in the DRC," 18 July 2019 The film follows the true-life story of Tex Gill, a transgender man who became a crime kingpin in the 1970s. — Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, "Scarlett Johansson Sparks Backlash By Saying Sheâs Allowed To Play Anything â Even A Tree," 14 July 2019 Chevron drew heat for the meeting after the government released a photo showing the two men sitting down with Maduro and Vice President Vice President Tareck El Aissami, who the U.S. had sanctioned months earlier as a drug kingpin. — Washington Post, "Will Trump let Chevron stay in Venezuela?," 16 July 2019 Uncle Henry, our ex-pimp, exâdrug-kingpin of an elder. — Mitchell S. Jackson, Harper's magazine, "Opportunity Cost," 10 Feb. 2019 In its latest use-what-already-exists effort, the brand partnered with Dockers, the 33-year-old khaki kingpin, to recut and reinterpret overstocked chinosânormally delegated to the dump or a discount dealer like TJ Maxx. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, "Does âSustainable Fashionâ Really Mean Anything?," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'kingpin.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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