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- noun Plural form of
poobah .
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Examples
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David Howard, the team's executive vice-president of business operations, said the hockey poobahs were "very impressed" and that Mets CEO Jeff Wilpon and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman "touched base" in the last few weeks.
We Got Your Winter Classic Right Here Kevin Clark 2011
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But this was before he was appointed by the poetry grand poobahs as their very own Bruce Springsteen.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Sutherland and Covert, former track teammates at Los Angeles Valley College, are the grand poobahs of streak running.
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I suspect there is some communications problem among the Fantagraphics poobahs.
PR: What Not to Do: Free Online Bait and Switch » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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Privately, the closed wallets of Democratic billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis is all that the poobahs of the DC fundraising world have been talking about for weeks.
Jane Hamsher: Soros, Lewis and Other Big Donors Abandon Democrats for Progressives and Weed Jane Hamsher 2010
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Anyway, that's why the grand poobahs of hockey keep fighting in the game.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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The Iowa Republican Party hosts its 2011 Ronald Reagan dinner, traditionally a must-attend event for GOP presidential candidates and state party poobahs.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Shocking Response To Solyndra Subpoena.. Arthur Delaney 2011
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The difference between the approaches of the Bush and Osama Administrations, as best I can tell is that we will agree to start negotiations before they stop their enrichment program under the current poobahs while the previous poobahs made stopping uranium enrichment a precondition.
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The Iowa Republican Party hosts its 2011 Ronald Reagan dinner, traditionally a must-attend event for GOP presidential candidates and state party poobahs.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Shocking Response To Solyndra Subpoena.. Arthur Delaney 2011
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Privately, the closed wallets of Democratic billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis is all that the poobahs of the DC fundraising world have been talking about for weeks.
Jane Hamsher: Soros, Lewis and Other Big Donors Abandon Democrats for Progressives and Weed Jane Hamsher 2010
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