Crossword clues for bosses
bosses
- Decision-makers on the job
- Business owners
- Those in charge
- They have leading roles
- Powerful figures
- Powerful enemies at the ends of video game levels
- Political VIPs
- People managers
- Orders about
- Orders (around)
- Mob figures
- Michael on "The Office" et al
- Givers of orders
- Firm cheeses
- Enemies like Dracula and the Grim Reaper in the video game "Castlevania," e.g
- End-of-level challenges in video games
- Department heads
- Business heads
- Bruce Springsteen and George Steinbrenner?
- Boardroom members
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boss \Boss\ (b[o^]s; 115), n.; pl. Bosses (-[e^]z). [OE. boce, bose, boche, OF. boce, boche, bosse, F. bosse, of G. origin; cf. OHG. b[=o]zo tuft, bunch, OHG. b[=o]zan, MHG. b[^o]zen, to beat. See Beat, and cf. Botch a swelling.]
Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.
(Arch.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.
[Cf. D. bus box, Dan. b["o]sse.] A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
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(Mech.)
The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
A swage or die used for shaping metals.
A head or reservoir of water. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (plural of boss English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: boss)
Usage examples of "bosses".
There had been a rumored falling out among several of the bosses of the larger territories, which resulted in the road being closed, and abandoned to bandits.
He was, by a vote of the Affiliated Bosses, Head Boss, empowered to speak for all if the need arose.
Standing with humped shoulders, close beside the road, bunched together with mournfully drooping horns, heads held low beneath the massive bosses, bodies very big and black, were two old buffalo bulls.
In the next few years, others whose villages had been burned came to join him, as well as those who disobeyed the bosses, turning on their tax collectors and killing them.
There are few bosses indeed who can stand against even one free company.
The wars between bosses quickly became a matter of seeing who could hire the most and the best mercenaries, and the ordinary people were ground down to pay for them.
By the time the bosses came marching, the mercenaries were available for hire, and the free cities became some of their best customers.
He has been out among the bullies and the bosses, and in his mind, if the yeomen have decent clothing and even sandals instead of wads of rags, they are no doubt using money that could be spent on a new suit of armor.
All their captains dream of becoming bosses in their own right, and will see Quilichen as their chance!
So, captain, the bosses have decided to attack the free towns and conquer them before we grow any stronger, and they mean to begin with Quilichen.
I win, you and all your people shall go away, and drive these bosses and their cattle before you!
Loutre lifted his gaze to his fellow bosses and the mercenary captains.
There is no orderly transfer of authority when bosses are often murdered by a wild gun who aspires only to their power.
bosses came and bosses went, and even a boss who was good for business was bound to be murdered one day.
Gwince, and the two bosses obligingly escorted Voral Jene to the nearer wall.