What is "bossing around"

Usage examples of "bossing around".

I felt so stupid, bossing around people who were at least fifty years older than me.

After a stiff exchange of pleasantries with the other cable layers on the beach, he goes to the brink of the trench and begins bossing around the man with the half-pipes, who, knowing what's good for him, just keeps his mouth shut while maintaining a certain bearing and dignity beside which the executive's suit and umbrella seem pathetic and vain.

There he was busying himself bossing around the workmen who were renovating the place, enjoying the cool weather under the conifers on the mountainside, and reveling in the complete lack of comm calls of any kind whatsoever.

Violet and Klaus could see at once that they were similar to the whip Olaf had used when bossing around the lions at Caligari Carnival.

Then she made Nell clean up the mess under the bed, frequently inspecting the results and beating her, apparently acting out a parody of a rich Westerner bossing around some poor running dog.