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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.
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But this was before he was appointed by the poetry grand poobahs as their very own Bruce Springsteen.
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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.
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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
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Anyway, that's why the grand poobahs of hockey keep fighting in the game.
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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.
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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..
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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
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