Boz
Appearance
Boz may refer to:
- people
- Boz (long "o"), an early pen name of Charles Dickens, and the name under which he published his first work, Sketches by Boz. The name came from "the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of The Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz."
- The Boz (short "o"), the nickname of the former American Football player and sometime actor Brian Bosworth.
- Boz, singer and bass guitarist Boz Burrell.
- Boz Scaggs, born William Royce Scaggs (1944), is an Ohio-born Texan singer, songwriter and guitarist. He recorded his first solo album Boz in 1965.
- BoZ, fictional rock band loosely based on Japanese band B'z, from the anime and manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei.
- places
- Boz, a village in Doştat Commune, Alba County, Romania
- Boz, a village in Brănişca Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
- Boz is a commune of the Ain département in France
- other
- Boz is the Armenian name for whore (original meaning of the word was different and apparently referred to red, reddish, redhead, bright...)
- Boz is the Persian word for goat
- Boz Pity, a planet in Star Wars Episode III where Quinlan Vos took his clone army.
- BOZ is a class of literal constant in Fortran (Binary-Octal-Hexadecimal strings).
- BOZ is a Peruvian wetsuit brand.