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high muckamucks

high muckamucks is the plural 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

Questions about high muckamucks

What is high muckamucks the plural of?
High muckamucks is the plural of high muckamuck.

Words near high muckamucks in the dictionary

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

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