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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bozo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Who's that bozo in the purple shirt?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I don't want to talk to the bozos.
▪ I re-member the night that big Texas oil bozo gave Jack lip.
▪ In the back there's bozo and me.
▪ That way, there was a guaranteed absence of bozos.
▪ They were ... yes I now concede, complete and utter bozos.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bozo

"muscular low-I.Q. male," c.1910, perhaps from Spanish bozal, used in the slave trade and also to mean "one who speaks Spanish poorly." Bozo the clown was created 1940 at Capitol Records as the voice in a series of story-telling records for children ["Wall Street Journal," Oct. 31, 1983].

Wiktionary
bozo

n. (context slang English) A stupid or foolish person.

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WordNet
bozo

  1. n. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany]

  2. an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre]

Wikipedia
Božo

Božo is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Božo Bakota (1950–2015), Croatian footballer
  • Božo Biškupić (born 1938), Croatian politician and lawyer
  • Božo Broketa (1922–1985), Yugoslavian football (soccer) player
  • Božo Đumić (born 1992), Serbian professional basketball player
  • Božo Đurković (born 1972), retired Serbian football player
  • Božo Janković (1951–1993), Bosnian Serb football player
  • Božo Koprivica, essayist, dramatic adviser and literary critic from Montenegro of Yugoslavian ethnicity
  • Božo Kos (1931–2009), Slovene illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist
  • Božo Kovačević (footballer) (born 1979), Austrian footballer of Serbian descent
  • Božo Kovačević (politician) (born 1955), the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2009
  • Božo Ljubić (born 1949), Croat politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Božo Milić (born 1981), Montenegrin professional footballer
  • Božo Nikolić (1946–2010), Croat politician from Montenegro representing the Croatian Civic Initiative
  • Božo Petek, the author of two books on model aircraft building published in Slovene in 1946 and 1953
  • Božo Petrov (born 1979), Croatian politician and psychiatrist who currently serves as mayor of Metković
  • Božo Škerlj (1908–1961), Slovene anthropologist, author of eleven books and over 200 scientific articles
  • Božo Skoko (born 1976), associate professor of public relations at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
  • Božo Starčević (born 1988), male Greco-Roman wrestler from Croatia
  • Božo Vuletić (born 1958), won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Yugoslav water polo team at the 1984 Olympics
Bozo (album)

Bozo is the debut studio album of the singer/songwriter Lida Husik, released in 1991 by Shimmy Disc.

Bozo (film)

is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Tatsushi Ōmori and based on the Akihabara massacre. It was released on 16 March 2013 in Japan.

Usage examples of "bozo".

He ended it with another growl that caused Bozo to ease back in his chair and give a sheepish grin.

Brodie was comparing his new lieutenant, Cliff Marsland, with the old, Bozo Griffin.

The single shot, though unexpected in this quiet neighborhood, had no aftermath until Bozo decided to give the next command.

If such were the case, the guilt must lie between Bozo Griffin and Cliff Marsland.

Cliff Marsland, strolling through the badlands with Bozo Griffin, had gained no suspicion whatever.

They strolled a block until they reached the front of the old hotel, where Brodie was to meet Bozo and Cliff.

With a contemptuous laugh, Brodie Brodan ordered Bozo Griffin to bring the prisoner along.

I refer to that waddling and bowlegged purple-furred monstrosity with a huge and faithful heart of purest cold, Bozo the othode.

I later sent a message to my friend back on Earth, informing him that we had seen Bozo and his mate, together with a litter of eight of the fattest, most adorable othode pups imaginable.

Bozo has gone back to the wild, with most of her litter, and Bozo, together with one of his male pups, feeling the need for human companionship again, now that the urge for domesticity had waned, took to haunting the gates of Shondakor, and finally deigned to join us in the palace as a pet of the entire court.

At any rate, my courtiers were already fond of Bozo-for it was none other than the faithful Bozo who had found the hidden door to Kuur, and because of his keen nose and hunting instinct, we found and crushed the dread and dangerous Mind Wizards.

While in the palace, Bozo sleeps wherever he likes, sometimes in the suite I share with my beloved Darloona, sometimes on hot nights in the cool gardens-but, more often than not, he chooses to share the little bed on which Taran sleeps when he is not on duty in the cadet barracks.

Taran found Koja with Bozo and Fido, returning from a spell of exercise in the palace gardens.

Taran who found Bozo and Edo, it was really Bozo and Fido who found Taran.

Now the pup repeated this sequence of actions, somewhat more clumsily and more gracelessly than had Bozo, but without accident.