KINGPIN


Meaning of KINGPIN in English

(~s)

If you describe someone as the ~ of an organization, you mean that they are the most important person involved in it. (JOURNALISM)

...one of the alleged ~s of Colombia’s largest drugs ring.

= linchpin

N-COUNT: oft N of n, n N

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