kingpin

If a kidnap 'kingpin' is operating high in the ranks of the police, this is a measure of the desperate urgency of what the public is up against.

This device is secured in a normal manner by a central 'kingpin' which is received within a slot portion of the device.

If your trucks feel too tight or too loose grab your wrench and adjust them by turning the nut on the 'kingpin' (if you have Grind Kings, you'll need to use an Allen key to tighten them).

The new kid on the block - or off the block, as the case may be - is having a go at the main man, the 'kingpin' .

The offset barrel-shape wound spring changes the load path through the suspension, allowing the spring's axis to come in line with the 'kingpin' instead of the strut, reducing lateral load on the upper strut bearing.

Gambling 'kingpins' and vice lords bought votes, counted votes of long since dead voters and terrorized honest citizens so that every political leader and law enforcement officer in the county owed their jobs to the crooks.

The brains behind the operation, the drug 'kingpins' , usually receive a get-out-of-jail-free card in exchange for giving information and writing a check.

And so the gangsters from Culiacan became world famous 'kingpins' of complex criminal enterprises - many resembling multi-national corporations in structure.