The front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.
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Examples for "kingpin "
Examples for "kingpin "
1 He said a kingpin structure existed where older boys assaulted younger ones.
2 The charge: being the kingpin of a massive international DVD piracy ring.
3 The FBI accuses 30-year-old Beauregard Wattigney of being counterfeit coupon kingpin ThePurpleLotus.
4 In July, a federal judge sent the kingpin to prison for life.
5 He neither dissed the hedge fund kingpin nor sucked up to him.
1 These results demonstrate that the serpin headpin possesses specificity for inhibiting lysosomal cysteine proteinases.
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