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bozo
noun- a buffoon US, 1916
- In the US, the older sense of “bozo” as “a fellow” was supplanted by the figure Bozo the Clown, who first appeared on record in 1946 and then became a fixture on local television programmes throughout the US beginning in 1949.
a city neighbourhood dominated by homosexual men US- “Read it and weep, bozo—I’m the law.” — Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door, p. 173, 1947
- It’s the horn-goggled bozos who sit in swivel chairs that make wars. [Quoting Dr Leo Eloesser] — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 21, 3 December 1950
- C’mon now, Blondie, what you want to mess with these bozos for? — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 231, 1962
- Eric Burdon is [...] infinitely entertaining for precisely the bozo he is. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 99, 1972
- The unflattering moniker of Bozo the President bestowed on him by a New York, writer, has become so common that a standing White House joke has the Secret Service adopting it as Ford’s code identification. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle (from the Chicago Tribune), p. A2, 21 December 1975
- “These bozos mean business.” “Bozos?” the chairman said tentatively, glancing around the table. "The bad guys," Keyes explained. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 194, 1986
- Hey, Murtaugh, tell these bozos to lay off. — Lethal Weapon, 1987
- And this bozo looks me up and down, giving me this oily smile, and tells me I got any complaints I should go talk to the owner. — Robert Campbell, In a Pig’s Eye, p. 169, 1991
- I had bozos operating this. — Robert Stoller and I.S. Levine, Coming Attraction, p. 31, 1991
- The guy’s a Bozo deluxe. — Airheads, 1994
- heroin UK, 1998
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 205, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 283, 2003
- an ounce of heroin US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 43, 1992
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