Big Kahuna Definition

kə-ho͝onə
noun
The most important or powerful person in an enterprise or field.
American Heritage

(idiomatic) A boss, leader, chieftain, or top-ranking person in an organization.

You'll have to talk with the big kahuna to get a decision on that.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Big Kahuna

Noun

Singular:
big kahuna
Plural:
big-kahunas

Origin of Big Kahuna

  • From Big Kahuna nickname of the leader of a gang of surfers in the film Gidget (1959) from Hawaiian kahuna priest, expert from Proto-Polynesian tufunga

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowed from Hawaiian word kahuna (“a shaman or wizard").

    From Wiktionary

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