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top dog

noun as in honcho

Strong matches

noun as in top banana

noun as in winner

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Reinforce your pup’s positive behavior with these top dog treats.

If you spend unending hours on trains and planes, or around coworkers that chew loudly during lunch, investing in the top dog noise cancelling might be worth it for you.

In fact, becoming top dog is so fraught that many observers suspect that Colin Huang—founder of e-commerce firm Pinduoduo—purposely divested company stock last year to avoid becoming the country’s wealthiest individual.

From Time

It’s good to the be the top dog at Coinbase—better than it is to be the chief of JPMorgan or Goldman Sachs, if CEO Brian Armstrong’s total pay is anything to go by.

From Quartz

READ MORE ON OZYThese trends will determine whether China emerges as the world’s top dog.

From Ozy

In any event, for the Kudo-kai, the police arrest of their top dog is expected to have the impact of a well-thrown hand grenade.

If Ben Affleck is the top dog at the rear of the party, Taylor Swift is the center of attention at the front of it.

Not of a top dog, as This Morning remains comfortably in third, but one that says to those other guys, “We are coming for you.”

Google could spend less on development, and still maintain its position as top dog.

But his immediate task is to reassure his supporters that he is still top dog.

Go back on my hand-shake, just to be top dog and get the bones!

They were not weakly addicted to half measures in those days, whichever side was "top dog."

And Ive got the best grey matter in this camp, and Im going to be top dog as a matter of course.

If youd had a mind superior to Moirs youd be top dog here, with Moir fetching bones for you.

She wondered if they met, who would come out top-dog; so she phrased it in her quick brain.

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On this page you'll find 495 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to top dog, such as: expert, judge, law, arbiter, aristocrat, and bible.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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