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80 lines
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{
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"kahuna":{
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"antonyms":[
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"lightweight",
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"nobody",
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"nonentity",
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"nothing",
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"shrimp",
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"twerp",
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"whippersnapper",
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"zero",
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"zilch"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a Hawaiian shaman":[],
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": a preeminent person or thing : big gun":[
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"the industry's big kahuna , with \u2026 57 percent of the market",
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"\u2014 A. E. Serwer"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a big kahuna at a Hollywood talent agency, he's got the fancy car to prove it",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But the big kahuna is still to come, as the company finally confirmed that the Supra is officially getting a manual transmission. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 15 Apr. 2022",
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"The big kahuna of their SoCal tour-within-a-tour this week is Wednesday night\u2019s show at Crypto.com Arena, a venue that\u2019s seven miles and about 43 years from the Masque, where the earliest incarnation of the group started out as a punk group. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"And the big kahuna of them all, the Oscars, are just around the corner. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
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"While there are other area codes that service Houston, 713 will always be the big kahuna around these parts. \u2014 Sonia Ramirez, Chron , 12 July 2021",
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"But the universal charitable deduction is probably the big kahuna among the tax policy issues. \u2014 Tax Notes Staff, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2021",
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"Amazon\u2019s speed of delivery can feel like magic sometimes, but the severe Texas freeze has kept even the big kahuna of disruptors from operating in some of its biggest markets. \u2014 Maria Halkias, Dallas News , 18 Feb. 2021",
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"But the big kahuna is $436 billion for state, local, territorial and tribal governments. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 29 Sep. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1875, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Hawaiian":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"k\u0259-\u02c8h\u00fc-n\u0259"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"big",
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"big boy",
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"big cheese",
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"big gun",
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"big leaguer",
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"big shot",
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"big wheel",
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"big-timer",
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"bigfoot",
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"biggie",
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"bigwig",
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"fat cat",
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"heavy",
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"heavy hitter",
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"heavyweight",
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"high-muck-a-muck",
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"high-muckety-muck",
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"honcho",
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"kingfish",
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"kingpin",
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"major leaguer",
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"muckety-muck",
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"muck-a-muck",
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"mucky-muck",
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"nabob",
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"nawab",
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"nibs",
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"nob",
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"pooh-bah",
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"poo-bah",
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"wheel"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000943",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |