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boss
noun- used as an informal address or reference to the officer in command UK
- — Nigel Foster, The Making of a Royal Marine Commando, 1987
- Uniformed sergeants are “Skip” or “Sarge”, or it’s first name terms. A senior officer would be “Boss”. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 82, 2002
- the commanding officer AUSTRALIA
- I had been there and done that myself and so justice was tempered with mercy; “Will you front the Boss? or would you perhaps volunteer for some extra duty time in which you can repent of your sinfulness.” — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- a marine drill instructor US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 27, 1991
- a prison guard or official US
- Pace up and down, pace up and down you, you’re gonna get through a lot of paces before you get out of here. Yes boss. Always yes boss. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 101, 1970
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 55, 1972
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- When they were in a good mood they called us “screws”, “four-by-twos” or “boss”; but when they were pissed off it degenerated to “fuckin’ cunts” and “fuckin’ dog”. — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 11, 2001
- the owner or man in charge of a large rural property AUSTRALIA
- But, Boss, you’d better not fight with me–it wouldn’t be fair nor right. — A.B. Paterson, Rio Grande and Other Verses, p. 84, 1902
- The sky and plain still drowsed dreamily, and neither the sick Boss’s home, not Nungi the half-caste’s hut on the other side of the river-split plain, showed a sign of smoke. — Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, p. 117, 1907
- So I pipes up and asks if the boss is at ’ome. — Erle Cox, Out of the Silence, p. 253, 1925
- Above all, she must not tell the boss of any little irregularity she may see. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 5, 1947
- Look, the boss is all right. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 50, 1959
- The boss was away, and his missus, who recognised Jimmy, wasn’t one of the giving sort. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 47, 1960
- the best US, 1878
- Angel laughed. “Horse is the boss,” he said. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 51, 1952
- in poker, the best hand at a given moment US
- — Anthony Holden, Big Deal, p. 298, 1990
- pure heroin US
- — Francis J. Rigney and L. Douglas Smith, The Real Bohemia, p. xiii, 1961
- the penis US
Either a male coinage or heavily ironic. - — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 69, 2001
- in carnival usage, a person whom thieves use to estimate the value of articles that they have stolen US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 31, 1981
▶ the boss
your wife AUSTRALIA, 1984
Jocular, probably. |