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poo⋅bah

  [poo-bah]
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–noun
Pooh Bah.
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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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