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Boss

The word boss includes several meanings:

  • For a projection (as in the ceilings of cathedrals where arches intersect), often decorated, e.g., variously carved and painted with religious images and local coats of arms, see architecture.
  • Primarily in American English, any of various senses derived from the Dutch term "baas" (meaning "master"):
    • In casual usage regarding business organizations:
    • (Boss is also a jocular or disparaging nickname for a spouse of either sex, as in "I'll have to find out what the boss thinks".)
    • For a dominant person (whether a public official or not) in a political party, or subdivision of one, see political boss .
    • For the leader of an independent organized crime "family", see crime boss .
    • For a particularly powerful enemy in a video game, whose defeat would complete a level, episode, or game, see boss (video games).
    • As to people named and/or called Boss:
    • As for items described as "Boss", an adjective, describing item/event/noun in a positive manner. "That car is really boss", or "Wow, it's going to be a boss party"
  • Boss (soft drink) is a coffee and coffe flavored beverage marketed in Japan by Suntory.


Last updated: 05-03-2005 02:30:17