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kingpin
[king-pin]
noun
Bowling.
Informal.the person of chief importance in a corporation, movement, undertaking, etc.
Informal.the chief element of any system, plan, or the like.
a kingbolt.
either of the pins that are a part of the mechanism for turning the front wheels in some automotive steering systems.
kingpin
/ ˈɪŋˌɪ /
noun
the most important person in an organization
the crucial or most important feature of a theory, argument, etc
Also called (Brit): swivel pin.a pivot pin that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle by securing the stub axle to the axle beam
tenpin bowling the front pin in the triangular arrangement of the ten pins
(in ninepins) the central pin in the diamond pattern of the nine pins
Example Sentences
Securing BBC Eye's exchange with Brar took a year of chasing - cultivating sources, waiting for replies, gradually getting closer to the kingpin himself.
Their father was himself a feared kingpin who had been killed in Amsterdam's Red Light District in 2000.
"He was the kingpin, mastermind and architect of this corrupt legal system designed to serve the pro-Russian administration at the time," he says.
For years, Mexican police, sometimes with U.S. assistance, have been destroying drug labs and taking out kingpins — to no apparent effect on cross-border smuggling.
A notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
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