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plural ringleaders
A leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group. quotations examples
Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.”
2017, Allyson Kennedy, Can't Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl
A person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang. quotations examples
A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, / Under the countenance and confederacy / Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, / The ringleader and head of all this rout, / Have practis'd dangerously against your state...
1590, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2