"grand poobah" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Pooh-Bah, the name of a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado (1885).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "He once played golf with the grand poobah of their company.",
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        "A person who is important or high-ranking."
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial, often humorous) A person who is important or high-ranking."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "An extremely pompous person."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ɡɹænd ˈpuːbɑː/"
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      "word": "important person"
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    "Gilbert and Sullivan",
    "The Mikado"
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  "etymology_text": "From Pooh-Bah, the name of a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado (1885).",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A person who is important or high-ranking."
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial, often humorous) A person who is important or high-ranking."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "An extremely pompous person."
      ]
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  ],
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