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kingpin
noun
an indispensable leader US, 1867- I’m the boss around here and don’t you forget it. I’m your kingpin. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 39, 1969
- So if Gregor had been the Kingpin of Filth in Chicago, or if he at least tried to be the Kingpin, I would have respected him. — Lawrence Block, No Score [The Affairs of Chip Harrison Omnibus], p. 88, 1970
- No one enjoyed giving the tall Black kingpin information that was bad. — Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum, p. 39, 1975
- Sonny Roberts was the biggest dope kingpin in the Bronx and also parts of Harlem in which Doll Baby was not strong. — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 27, 1978
- [T]heir pal spoke highly of the kingpin’s missus, and they knew she was kosher (honest). — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 178, 1999
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