king bee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of king bee
1890–95, on the model of queen bee
Example Sentences
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Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin.
From Time Magazine Archive
She’s the king bee of this post, and everybody pets her and is her slave, and yet, as you know, your own self, she ain’t the least little bit spoiled.”
From A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark
He was the king bee in that lot of evangelizers and elevators.
From The Law of the Land by Hough, Emerson
And then there ain't such a thing as a king bee anyhow—queens, drones and workers make up a colony.
From The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts: Under Canvas or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan
Maybe fifty of 'em had come, and was seated, when in slid the king bee, the governor of the district.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
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