An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
1
I just loved to hear her, and she walked like high-up royalty.
2
The penthouses have good balconies, some with high-up views of the Dublin mountains.
3
The winds, the snows, and the high-up fort remained the same.
4
The Morses were well connected and had some quite high-up relatives.
5
He were dressed like a high-up officer in the army.
6
The party's high-ups, of course, are having none of that.
Portuguese
Spanish