Wiktionary
vb. To act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.
WordNet
v. be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, hector, push around]
Usage examples of "boss around".
Necromancers of legend could boss around all types of undead, and they had to do your bidding.
The only undead I could boss around were zombies and Damian, and frankly, I found even that unsettling.
But when it comes to weapons like these- well, one of them could make a man a pretty big boss around here.
Still, if I was going to effectively run our division, I had to make sure that there wasn't any doubt in anyone's mind who was boss around here.
I think it is time, woman, that you learned the hard way that you can get away with just so much and then we must establish who is the boss around here.
But now, in her male Peacekeeper uniform, Ming was just a grunt, someone for most of the others to boss around.