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What is a panjandrum?

What is a panjandrum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An important, powerful or influential person.
  2. A self-important or pretentious person.
  3. (military) A massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.
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One player is chosen to be the panjandrum, an important personage requiring a body guard.
The Republic of Beotia has been compelled to confine the panjandrum and his family, for their own safety, within certain bounds.
All the ladies came to breakfast at half-past seven, and so did the great panjandrum himself.
These sound great, and you talk to the high panjandrum about running it, then it turns out you have to charge a fortune.
Lou Gerstner, high panjandrum at IBM, has been awarded an honorary knighthood in the Queen's latest birthday honours list.
True or not, the story is in character: Mr Emanuel is famous for being the president's most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator, and proud of it to boot.

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