Boss

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Boss or BOSS may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Entertainment 3 Organizations 4 Phrases 5 Things

[edit] 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:

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

[edit] Entertainment

• Boss - I Love You - 2006 Tollywood film starring Nagarjuna.
• Need a Boss -- 2006 song by Shareefa and others

[edit] 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.
• Boss, a wakeboard tower and accesories company.

[edit] Phrases

• Scouse phrase meaning cool or great, as in "That film was boss."

[edit] Things

• A domed metal centre to a shield
• A brand of loudspeakers
• 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
• A series of modified Ford engines, such as the Ford Boss 302 engine , the Boss 351 and the Boss 429, used for NASCAR racing