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n. (context informal often humorous English) Any mayor
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Hizzoner is a corruption of the title " His Honor", used in particular to refer irreverently to the mayor of larger cities in the United States, especially the Mayor of New York City.
The term can further refer to:
- Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson, an idyll of Chicago, a 1930 book by journalist John Bright
- Hizzoner, a 1933 short film directed by Ray McCarey
- Hizzonner, an American sitcom that aired on NBC for one season in 1979
- Hizzoner!, a 1984 Emmy Award-winning play by Paul Shyre about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City
- Hizzoner: Daley the First, a 2006 play by Neil Giuntoli about Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Usage examples of "hizzoner".
His tone was significant, and he obviously had more than a casual interest in whether Hizzoner had showed up yet.
I did a good job of convincing myself that I was glad to have another morning without Hizzoner around, able to catch up on my work without him interrupting and countermanding.
Then Hizzoner, the mayor, declared open season on anyone on the streets after curfew.
Certificates of Merit, a lifetime supply of FunTwinks cereal, and checks for a thousand New Dollars each, by Hizzoner the Governor of Kansas.
Juge in an office like a bank manager, one of a row in a dingy if pompous courthouse, does not look nor sound like Hizzoner the Mayor, but his signature upon a piece of paper is more frightening.
The young man rubbed a shaving scar as he called the mayor at home and bluntly asked hizzoner to contact the director of the public library and tell them what they needed.
Lee, and hurried out of the school hall in the footsteps of Hizzoner to her own, lesser vehicle.
I wasn't worried about that particularly, but I wasn't keen on exposing myself and my family to assault and battery by the mouth-breathers who performed certain tasks for Hizzoner.