plural bosses

1

**:**a person who exercises control or authority

union bosses

a mafia boss

specifically

**:**one who directs or supervises workersasking your boss for a raise

2

politics

**:**someone who controls votes in a party organization or dictates appointments or legislative measuresstanding up to the party bosses

3

**:**a major antagonist in a game (such as a video game or board game) and usually one that must be overcome in order for a player to progress

At the start of each level players have 30 minutes to run around and beat the boss of the level.—

*GameRant.com*It's a hard game, with a hard final boss, and watching video of people defeating it is so, so sweet.—Cameron Kunzelman

—often used before another nouna boss fight/battle

boss characters

bossed; bossing; bosses

1

**:**to give usually arbitrary orders to —usually used with

*around*

Quit bossing me around.

2

**:**to exercise control or authority over

**:**to act as boss (see boss entry 1) of

need someone to boss that job

slang

**:**excellent, first-rate

a boss new rock band

1

a

**:**a raised ornamentation (as on a belt or shield)

**:**stud

b

**:**an ornamental projecting block used in architecture

c

**:**a protuberant part or body

a boss of granite

a boss on an animal's horn

2

**:**a soft pad used in ceramics and glassmaking

3

**:**the hub of a propeller

bossed; bossing; bosses

1

**:**to embellish (something, such as a belt or shield) with a raised decoration

**:**to ornament with bosses (see boss entry 4)

**:**emboss

a bossed book cover

2

**:**to treat (something, such as the surface of porcelain) with a boss

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