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noun • the most important person in a group or undertaking • bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle • the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | ||||||||
| 32% | 3 | a word used to refer to a person or thing when you are not mentioning any particular person or thing | ||||||
adverb • to any degree or extent adjective satellite • one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | ||||||||
| 32% | 8 | A person or thing that is named after another person or thing | ||||||
noun • a person with the same name as another | ||||||||
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KINGPIN which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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KINGPIN
Updated: October 13, 2023
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