Boss
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Boss or BOSS may refer to:
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[edit] People
Types of people:
- A person in authority over a group
- 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 (french band), a set of french rapper founded by Joey Starr
- Boss (australian band), a 1980s heavy metal band
- Ray Traylor, a professional wrestler whose stage name was "The Big Boss Man".
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.
- Pointy-Haired Boss, the office nemesis of Dilbert.
- Boss Nigger, played by Fred Williamson in the movie of the same name.
[edit] Entertainment
- Boss - I Love You - 2006 Tollywood film starring Nagarjuna.
[edit] Music
- Need a Boss, a 2006 song by Shareefa and others
- Singers/songwriters Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips perform a song called Dump the Bosses on their Fellow Workers CD. The song is also performed by the music group Bread and Roses.
[edit] Organizations
- Boss Audio. A manufacturer of car and marine audio and video systems
- Hugo Boss, a fashion label
- South African Bureau of State Security, the South African security police from 1966 - 1980
- BOSS, a company that manufactures guitar accessories
- Boss, a Turkish bus company.
- Boss Wake, a wakeboard tower and accessories company
[edit] Phrases
- Scouse phrase meaning cool or great, as in "That film was boss."
[edit] Things
- Shield boss, the domed metal centre to a shield
- A brand of loudspeakers
- A boss (video games), a particularly powerful enemy or opponent 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
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