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Grand Poobah 

Is a title given to someone who holds an exalted position.
The name has come to be used as a mocking title for someone important or high-ranking and who exhibits an inflated self-regard.
"Fred Flintstone and his friend Barney Rubble were members of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge No. 26. A high ranking elected position within this organization is Grand Poobah or Grand Imperial Poobah. Poobah is a title of respect and often is linked to might in a role."
n. Title

1. A word to use in place of "Czar" when discussing government bureaucrats appointed to supposedly advisory positions.

2. A word to use in place of "official" or "authority" when discussing those who have no official authority over anything.

3. Your boss

4. Leader of any fraternal organization.
The Economic Poobah announced today that All's Well.
Poobah by tangledupinbloo December 8, 2009
senior bureaucrat - derived from colonial India
poobah by Gina Dow August 10, 2006
my cousin is poobah
Poobah by danitoevitoe July 21, 2020
A name for a person that is rubbish at everything. Or an expression used to describe something that is not very good.
Hi Poobags how you doing?

That's poobags.

Poobags
poobags by Nic Walker August 23, 2005
A scary leader of a cult or other diabolical gathering spawned to comprimise the national security of the Untied States of America
"All hail grand Poobah! Cross the pit of coals so you may join the black serpents of doom!"
-Cult members
Poobah by Kurt April 20, 2004
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Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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Larpenomics

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