kingpin | Definition of kingpin

Synonyms and Antonyms of kingpin

1 one of high position or importance within a group

a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade

Synonyms of kingpin

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

Words Related to kingpin

baron, czar (also tsar), king, lion, magnate, mogul, prince, princess, queen, tycoon

Near Antonyms of kingpin

inferior, subordinate, underling

mediocrity, obscurity

Antonyms of kingpin

lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, shrimp, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

2 the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do

finally nailed the mob kingpin who had been controlling all the gambling rackets in the city

Synonyms of kingpin

boss, boss man, captain, chief, foreman, head, headman, helmsman, honcho, jefe, leader, master, taskmaster

Words Related to kingpin

directress, mistress

administrator, commander, director, executive, general, governor, hierarch, higher-up

leadman, manager, overseer, principal, skipper, standard-bearer, steward, straw boss, superintendent, superior, supervisor

dominator, lord, overlord, potentate, ruler, sovereign (also sovran)

baron, czar (also tsar), king, magnate, mogul, president, prince

big cheese, big gun, bigwig, top dog, top gun

cohead, coleader

employer, gaffer [British], ganger [British]

subchief, subdirector

Near Antonyms of kingpin

dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subject, subordinate, underling