Kingpin and Master

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Kingpin noun - The person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do.

Usage example: finally nailed the mob kingpin who had been controlling all the gambling rackets in the city

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Master and kingpin are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Master" instead a noun "Kingpin".

Master noun - The person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do.

Usage example: I'm the master of this operation, and you'll do what I say

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Kingpin and master are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kingpin" instead a noun "Master".

After that, whenever Kingpin showed up in Spidey comics, he curiously turned into a master-manipulator type instead of the brawler he once was.

Source: Badass Normal / Comic Books
In the "Born Again" storyline by neo-noir comics master Frank Miller, the Kingpin finds out that Matt Murdock is Daredevil and begins a months-long plot to systematically destroy his life before finally trying to kill him, putting Daredevil through the trial of his life.

Source: Comic Book / The Kingpin
Which is practically never - Mystery of the Great Pyramid and The Necklace Affair are the only times we see him acting as his own master (as the kingpin of a major trafficking network and a gentleman-thief, respectively).

Source: Comic Book / Blake and Mortimer

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