Usually means: Central figure in criminal operations.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. kingpin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kingpin: Merriam-Webster
  3. kingpin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kingpin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kingpin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kingpin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kingpin, kingpin: Wordnik
  8. kingpin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. kingpin: Wiktionary
  10. kingpin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kingpin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kingpin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Kingpin (TV series), Kingpin (automotive part), Kingpin (book), Kingpin (character), Kingpin (chess magazine), Kingpin (comics), Kingpin (disambiguation), Kingpin (film), Kingpin (mechanics), Kingpin (television series), Kingpin, The Kingpin (album), The Kingpin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. kingpin: Rhymezone
  15. kingpin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. kingpin: FreeDictionary.org
  17. kingpin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. kingpin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. kingpin: Infoplease Dictionary
  20. kingpin: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kingpin (disambiguation), kingpin: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kingpin, kingpin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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noun:  (transport) The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.
noun:  (transport) The pivot or connector between a tractor and trailer in the fifth-wheel coupling of semi-trailer truck.
noun:  (informal) The most important person in a usually evil undertaking or organization, often a druglord.
noun:  (ten-pin bowling) The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.
noun:  The bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard.

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