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high muckamuck

high muckamuck noun: a person in a position of power, authority, or status.

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 muckamuck

pluralhigh muckamucks

Origin of high muckamuck

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

Questions about high muckamuck

What does high muckamuck mean?
High muckamuck means a person in a position of power, authority, or status.
What part of speech is high muckamuck?
High muckamuck is a noun.
What is the plural of high muckamuck?
The plural of high muckamuck is high muckamucks.

Words near high muckamuck in the dictionary

  1. high memory area
  2. High Middle Ages
  3. high milling
  4. high modernism
  5. high modernity
  6. high muckamuck
  7. high muckamucks
  8. high muckety-muck
  9. high muckety-mucks
  10. high nellie
  11. high nellies

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