(North America, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status.
(North America, 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.
"high muckamuck" means: A person in a position of power, authority, or status.. There is a drug-related reference, so this is one worth noticing without overreacting. Many teens encounter such vocabulary through music, film and friends without any direct involvement. A neutral, curious conversation about where they heard the term and what they understand by it is far more useful than a confrontation. Watch for repeated context, not a single word.
"high muckamuck" means: A person in a position of power, authority, or status.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
"high muckamuck" means: A person in a position of power, authority, or status.. There is a drug-related reference, so this is one worth noticing without overreacting. Many teens encounter such vocabulary through music, film and friends without any direct involvement. A neutral, curious conversation about where they heard the term and what they understand by it is far more useful than a confrontation. Watch for repeated context, not a single word.
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(US, colloquial) A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status.
(countable, colloquial, sometimes, derogatory, originally, US) A person in a position of power or authority, or of high status.
(uncountable, US, dialectal, possibly, _, dated) Food.
(UK) An appellation given to a man who behaves in a perceived aristocratic manner.
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Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.