- VIPS
- Pass receivers?
- Big shots
- A-listers, for short
- Red carpet types
- Honchos
- Big wheels
- High muckamucks
- They get more attention than usual
- They have no trouble being admitted
- Award ceremony invitees
- CEOs, e.g.
- Limo passengers, presumably
- CFOs and CEOs
- Those who might get preferred seating
- Bigwigs, briefly
- Big shots, for short
- Bigwigs
- Limo riders, often
- CEOs and CFOs
- BMOCs, e.g.
- Limo riders
- Ones with clout
- Those with privileges, briefly
- Celebs given the red-carpet treatment
- Ones often seen in restricted lounges
- People with all-access passes
- Nabobs, initially
- Red-carpet walkers
- Big wheels, for short
- A-listers
- Pass receivers at bowl games
- Candidates for priorities.
- Very important people.
- Celebrities.
- Certain people of important.
- Important people.
- Guests at the captain's table.
- Personages.
- Personages: Slang.
- Brass.
- Celebrities: Slang.
- Top brass.
- Recipients of red-carpet treatment.
- The red-carpet set.
- Lionized ones
- Red-carpet guests
- Prestigious people, for short
- Wheels, honchos et al.
- C.E.O.'s and B.M.O.C.'S
- Somebodies
- Stars
- Limo-riding sorts
- Big names
- A-list group at an event
- Muckety-mucks
- Ones getting bottle service, say
- Ones getting backstage access, perhaps
- Big cheeses briefly
- CEO and COO
- BMOC's, CEO's et al.
- Special guests, for short
- CEOs and such
- Folks in limos, perhaps
- Notables
- Crowd beyond the velvet rope