Usually means: Important person with inflated self-importance.
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  1. panjandrum: Merriam-Webster
  2. panjandrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. panjandrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. panjandrum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. panjandrum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Panjandrum, panjandrum: Wordnik
  7. panjandrum: Wiktionary
  8. panjandrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. panjandrum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. panjandrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. panjandrum: Dictionary.com
  12. panjandrum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Panjandrum (musical), Panjandrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Panjandrum: Rhymezone
  15. Panjandrum: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  16. panjandrum: FreeDictionary.org
  17. panjandrum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. panjandrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. panjandrum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Panjandrum: World Wide Words
  21. Panjandrum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. panjandrum: A Word A Day
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  1. Panjandrum: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See panjandra as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (panjandrum)

noun:  An important, powerful or influential person; muckamuck.
noun:  A self-important or pretentious person.
noun:  (military) A massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.

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