Boss
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Boss may refer to:
Titles:
- The CEO or president of a company
- A manager, meaning the boss of a department or division
- A foreman, meaning the boss of a team (as in construction)
- A political boss, a politician who controls a political machine
- A crime boss, the leader of an independent organized crime outfit
- A boss (video games), a particularly powerful enemy in a video game
- A mechnical boss, is also a term used for a raised surface area (syn. knob) of mechanical component utilized for attachment or alignment.
Specific people:
- "Boss" Tweed, a 19th century politician in New York City
- George Steinbrenner, general partner of baseball's New York Yankees
- Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
- Medard Boss, a psychiatrist
Architecture:
- A roof boss or ceiling boss: a protruding stone, often decoratively carved, usually placed at the intersection of the ribs of a vault; a similar wooden feature at the intersection of beams in a ceiling
Fictional Characters:
- The Boss and Big Boss, characters in the Metal Gear video game series
- Big Boss, crime boss from Hasbro's C.O.P.S.
- "The Boss", nickname of Nicolas Lucifer III from the animated series The Baskervilles
Miscellaneous:
- Boss (soft drink), a brand of coffee and coffee flavored beverages marketed in Japan by Suntory
- BOSS, a brand of guitar accessories
- Hugo Boss, a fashion label
- BOSS is an acronym for South African Bureau Of State Security, the South African secret police from 1966 - 1980.
- BOSS is an acronym for Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a proposed system for directly observing distant planets using an occultation technique with a space telescope.Template:Disambig