Meanings
nounhigh pillow (plural high pillows)
plural high pillows
- USdatedslangThe boss; the man in charge.
‘There were a couple solved for the record, but they were just rappers. Some punk took it for the high pillow.’
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 203
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