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high-muck-a-muck

high-muck-a-muck is the alternative form of high muckamuck.

Meaning of high muckamuck

Noun

high muckamuck (plural high muckamucks)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status.
    • 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.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 94

Forms of high-muck-a-muck

pluralhigh-muck-a-mucks

Questions about high-muck-a-muck

What is high-muck-a-muck the alternative form of?
High-muck-a-muck is the alternative form of high muckamuck.

Words near high-muck-a-muck in the dictionary

  1. high-masking
  2. high-melting
  3. high-minded
  4. high-mindedly
  5. high-mindedness
  6. high-muck-a-muck
  7. high-muck-a-mucks
  8. high-necked
  9. high-nellies
  10. high-nelly
  11. high-nosed

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