boss
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views updated May 21 2018boss1 / bôs; bäs/ inf. •
n. a person in charge of a worker or organization: I asked my boss for a promotion union bosses.•
v. [tr.] give (someone) orders in a domineering manner: plump old battle-axes bossing everyone around.•
adj. excellent; outstanding: she's a real boss chick.DERIVATIVES: boss·y adj.boss2 •
n. a round knob, stud, or other protuberance, in particular: ∎ a stud on the center of a shield. ∎ Archit. a piece of ornamental carving covering the point where the ribs in a vault or ceiling cross.boss3 (also boss·y) •
n. inf. a cow.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
Boss
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views updated May 23 2018Boss ★½ The Black Bounty Killer; Boss Nigger; The Black Bounty Hunter 1974 (PG)
Blax-ploitation western parody with Williamson and Martin as a couple of bounty hunters tearing apart a town to find a fugitive. Relatively non-violent. 87m/C VHS . Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, R.G. Armstrong, William (Bill) Smith, Carmen Hayworth, Barbara Leigh; D: Jack Arnold; W: Fred Williamson.
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boss
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views updated May 11 2018boss formerly boce. 1. Carved convex block, often richly decorated, at the junction of
vault-ribs, etc., in medieval architecture.
2. See
boast 1.
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture JAMES STEVENS CURL
boss
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views updated May 08 2018boss Discordant
igneous intrusion that has roughly vertical sides and a subcircular outcrop, and an area of less than 25 km
2.
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY
BOSS
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views updated May 11 2018BOSS (bɒs) Bioastronautic Orbiting Space Station
• (
South Africa) Bureau of State Security
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH
boss
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views updated May 23 2018boss1 protuberance. XIII. — OF.
boce (mod.
bosse) :- Rom. *
bokja or *
bottia, of unkn. orig.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
boss
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views updated May 17 2018boss2 (orig. U.S.) master, employer. XIX. — Du.
baas master, of unkn. orig.
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