:BOSS

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Boss or BOSS may refer to:

People

Types of people:

• A person in authority over a group
  • A chief executive officer
  • A manager
  • A foreman
• A political boss
• A crime boss

Specific people:

• Boss Tweed, a 19th-century politician in New York City
• George Steinbrenner, general partner of the New York Yankees
• Bruce Springsteen, an American singer and songwriter
• Richard J. Daley, a former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Helmut Rahn, a German football player
• Boss (rapper), a female rapper with the debut album Born Gangstaz
• Boss (band), a 1980s heavy metal band

Fictional people:

• The Boss character in Metal Gear Solid 3
• Big Boss (Leader), crime boss from Hasbro's C.O.P.S.
• "The Boss", nickname of Nicolas Lucifer III from the animated series The Baskervilles

Organizations

• Hugo Boss, a fashion label
• South African Bureau of State Security, the South African secret police from 1966 - 1980
• BOSS, a company that manufactures guitar accessories
• Boss, a Turkish bus company.

Phrases

• Slang for "sorry son of a bitch" formed by reversing the initials

Things

• A domed metal centre to a shield
• A boss (video games), a particularly powerful enemy in a video game
• A boss (architecture), a protruding stone, often decoratively carved
• Boss (soft drink), a brand of coffee-flavored beverages
• Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a system for observing distant planets
• Billing Order and Support System, a text-based program created by IBM
• Browning Arms Company's Ballistic Optimizing Shooting System

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