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high muckamuck † [< Chinook Jargon hyiu muckamuck, q.v.] Slang

• a leading person in a group; big-shot.

  See also: big mucky-muck  hyiu muckamuck  

  • 1903  (1913)  . . . they reckon as they're the high muck-i-muck o' this location. . . .
  • 1927  "J. B. Smith is the high-muck-a-muck, the tyee of the mining business of British Columbia."
  • 1965  Not all the Liberal high muckamucks were as warmly defended as Favreau.