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[ UK /kˈɪŋpɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈkɪŋˌpɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. the most important person in a group or undertaking
  2. the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
  3. bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle

How To Use kingpin In A Sentence

  • Trailers and towable equipment should use quality trailer hitch or kingpin locks.
  • Only a few weeks ago, Lamont featured the kingpin keyboarder in a campaign ad the same one who once made the infamous "screw 'em" comments about the American victims of terrorism. Bull Moose
  • The book tells the story of “young, independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana kingpins are blackmailed into working for the Baja Cartel after one of their threesome is kidnapped.” Oliver Stone To Direct Don Winslow’s Drug Cartel Thriller Savages | /Film
  • Still, Ree - the name might as well be short for 'resourceful' - stands up to drug kingpins and crank addicts, cops and bail bondsmen, and her own neighbors and family members. Aspen Times - Top Stories
  • Calling him Barack --- it would not be long until other candidates 'advisers and their media friends would be making freudian slips calling him maraca --- in an obvious attempt to cause confusion about whether he is some sort of central american drug kingpin. Pro-Hillary Third Party Group Preparing Anti-Obama Web Site?
  • We can only hope that Calderon can throw the cartels on the defensive, gain cooperation from a frightened public which is reluctant to trust police, and start controlling the drug kingpins -- whose organizations seem in the meantime to be decentralizing and squabbling over territory. Concern for MX Govt
  • The $1 million-a-day heroin empire of a notorious Harlem druglord was brought down by his flashy fur coat, the kingpin says. Druglord ‘gangster’ fashion victim «
  • Amnesty says the death penalty is not a deterrent to the drug trade as runners, rather than the kingpins, are most at risk of facing the gallows.
  • He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges. Wild Bill Donovan
  • Japanese yakuza kingpin Akatora wants him because he thinks Dinosaur took his merchandise.
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