The adult leader of a group of Cub Scouts (officially termed Cub Scout Leader).
〈非正式〉童子军队长（由成人担任）
Example sentencesExamples
I joined with my mate Glynne Stentiford following a talk to our primary school by our local Akela, Mrs Cleall.
Cubs' Camp - ‘It was only years later when they find the shallow grave containing Akela's body that the sordid truth came out’
Phyll Brooke attended and was Assistant Cub Scout Leader from the early 1950s and then Akela until 1982.
She said: ‘My sons went there and I helped out to start with but when the group was threatened with closure I was talked into taking over as Akela.’
His wife, Sharelle, worked as secretary to one of the auctioneers at Woolley & Wallis and was Akela of the Amesbury Cubs, a role in which she proved very popular.
I hear O'Leary's up for Taylor's job, but then if there was a part-time vacancy for an Akela at a scout hut, O'Leary would be up for it.
Origin
1920s: from the name of the leader of a wolf pack in Kipling's Jungle Books (1894–5).