high muckamuck

1. 1.

   an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

   Synonymsvery important personVIPhigh-updignitarypanjandrum

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about high muckamuck

What does high muckamuck mean?

high muckamuck means "an important or influential (and often overbearing) person".

What is another word for high muckamuck?

Close synonyms include very important person, VIP, high-up, dignitary, panjandrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high muckamuck a common word?

high muckamuck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.