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UK
/kˈɪŋpɪn/
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[ US /ˈkɪŋˌpɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈkɪŋˌpɪn/ ]
NOUN
- the most important person in a group or undertaking
- the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
- 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.