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
- high-muckety-muck
- honcho
- kahuna
- kingfish
- major leaguer
- muckety-muck
- muck-a-muck
- mucky-muck
- nabob
- nawab
- nibs
- nob [chiefly British]
- pooh-bah
- poo-bah
- wheel
Examples of kingpin in a Sentence
kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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Advertisement California ‘El Mago,’ drug trafficker linked to son of Sinaloa cartel kingpin, gunned down in L.A.
Nov. 25, 2023
The indictment described a straightforward system to transfer wealth out of China.
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
Their explosive investigation gets even more dangerous as Mike and Marcus must protect murder witness Julie (Téa Leoni) from a French drug kingpin and his deadly henchmen after surviving a shoot-out.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 12 June 2024
The Iranian government, which has executed thousands of its own citizens for drug offenses, has become the de facto kingpin of one of the world’s largest narcotics smuggling networks.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2022
But Mike's past seems to catch up to him as a kingpin cartel widow, Isabel (Kate del Castillo), and her son Armando (Jacob Scipio) begin assassinating people tied to her husband's downfall, including Mike.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 12 June 2024
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
Their explosive investigation gets even more dangerous as Mike and Marcus must protect murder witness Julie (Téa Leoni) from a French drug kingpin and his deadly henchmen after surviving a shoot-out.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 12 June 2024
The Iranian government, which has executed thousands of its own citizens for drug offenses, has become the de facto kingpin of one of the world’s largest narcotics smuggling networks.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2022
But Mike's past seems to catch up to him as a kingpin cartel widow, Isabel (Kate del Castillo), and her son Armando (Jacob Scipio) begin assassinating people tied to her husband's downfall, including Mike.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 12 June 2024
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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