kingmake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Okay, you get on the extension in the other room and listen to me kingmake Percy President."
- ""Sol thinks of himself as a kingmaker," she said. "And actually, I suppose he is — " "Why doesn't he kingmake something for himself?""
- "The kingmakers are about to kingmake someone else"
- "Others over-engineered and made their miners too expensive, whereas Bitmain made it functional and efficient," Mow says, adding: “A slightly different direction killed one company and kingmade another.”"
- "I do dislike it if part of the skill of playing consists of manipulating the people who are out of the running to get them to kingmake for you."
- "If they really can't, they recognize they're kingmakers, and if there's a good reason they kingmake, but even then they usually deal with their predator to buy time and bang on their prey a bit (you never know - now and again it works)."
Etymology
Back-formation from kingmaker.