supremo

plural supremos · plural supremoes

1. informalThe most important person in an organization.

   Kitchener was, of course, Secretary of State for War and virtual military supremo.

   1986, Peter King, The Viceroy's Fall: How Kitchener Destroyed Curzon

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   Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.

   Sep 25, 2007 - Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief (AFP)

   The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.

   2023 May 2, Samuel Fishwick, “The ‘secret romance’ that got everybody talking at the Met Gala”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 13 May 2023

   The TOI correspondent from Washington : MAGA supremo Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that many countries are calling him and "kissing my ass... dying to make a deal" after he unleashed a new tariff regime that by all accounts is starting to derail global trade and devastate economies worldwide, including in the US.

   2025 April 9, Chidanand Rajghatta, “Meltdown in MAGAland as Trump's trade trainwreck tears up US”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025