Usually means: High-ranking person, often pompous.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word pooh bah:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pooh bah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pooh-bah: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pooh-Bah, pooh-bah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pooh-Bah: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pooh-Bah, Pooh-Bah: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pooh-bah: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pooh-Bah, pooh-bah: Wordnik
  8. Pooh-Bah, pooh-bah, pooh bah: Wiktionary
  9. pooh-bah: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Pooh Bah: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pooh-Bah, pooh bah: Dictionary.com
  12. Pooh-Bah: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. pooh-bah: Rhymezone
  14. pooh-bah: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pooh-bah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Pooh-Bah: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pooh-Bah: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pooh-bah: A Word A Day
  2. pooh-bah: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pooh bah)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of poobah [A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.]

Similar:
high-muck-a-muck, Pooh-Bah, poohbah, poo bah, Poo-Bah, grand poobah, popo, poopie, pookah, muckey-muck, more...

Opposite:
underling, subordinate, minion
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Similar:
high-muck-a-muck, Pooh-Bah, poohbah, poo bah, Poo-Bah, grand poobah, popo, poopie, pookah, muckey-muck, more...

Opposite:
underling, subordinate, minion



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