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Definition of poobah - 2 dictionary results

poo⋅bah

[poo-bah]
–noun
Pooh Bah.

Pooh Bah

[poo bah]
–noun (often lowercase)
1. a person who holds several positions, esp. ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
2. a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry.
3. a pompous, self-important person.
Also, Pooh-Bah, poobah.


Origin:
1880–85; after a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, who holds all of the high offices of state simultaneously and uses them for personal gain
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