high muckamuck

See also: high-muck-a-muck

English

Etymology

From Chinook Jargon hiyu muckamuck (“plenty of food”). Compare muckamuck.

Noun

high muckamuck (plural high muckamucks)

1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status. [from 19th c.]
   • 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 94:

     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.

Translations

muckamuck — see muckamuck