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big kahuna

[ big kuh-hoo-nuh ]

noun

Slang.
  1. the most important or dominant person or thing: Their scholarship program is the industry’s big kahuna.

    He’s the big kahuna of a large travel agency.

    Their scholarship program is the industry’s big kahuna.



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Origin of big kahuna1

First recorded in 1955–60; big 1( def ), kahuna ( def )
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Of course, L.A.’s the big kahuna now.

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"Given the interest of the majority of states in pursuing this issue, we think it's only appropriate that the big kahuna, the federal government, take action as well."

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In New York City in 1999, Jesse says he was working on “The Big Kahuna,†which Spacey starred in and produced.

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But the big kahuna of consumer deflation is electronics.

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Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl†— lent by the Museum of Modern Art and picturing a blue-haired woman vanishing beneath silvery waves — is facing, embarrassing to say, a replica of Hokusai’s big kahuna made from blue and white Lego blocks.

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