Boss
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A boss is a person in charge.
Boss may also refer to:
Occupations
- Boss (crime), head of a criminal organization
- Air boss, more formally, air officer, the person in charge of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier
- Fire boss, a person in charge
- Pit boss, the person who looks after the employees who work in a casino pit
- Political boss, a person who controls a political region or constituency
Places
- Boss (crater), a lunar crater
- Boss, Missouri
- Boss, Texas
People
As a nickname or stage name
- Jaime Rodriguez ("Boss"), aka Jay Rod
Athletes
- Lance Armstrong ("Le Boss", born 1971), former professional cyclist
- Bobby Lashley (born 1976), professional wrestler
- Helmut Rahn ("Der Boss", 1929–2003), German football player
- Andrew Reynolds (skateboarder) (born 1978)
- George Steinbrenner (1930–2010), owner of the New York Yankees baseball team
- Jos Verstappen (born 1972), Dutch Formula One driver
Musicians
- Boss (rapper) (née Lichelle Laws, 1969), American rapper
- Gene Ammons ("The Boss", 1925–1974), American jazz musician and songwriter
- Ross the Boss Friedman (born 1954), guitarist of The Dictators and Manowar
- Diana Ross ("The Boss", born 1944), American singer and actress
- Rick Ross ("The Boss", born 1976), American rapper
- Bruce Springsteen ("The Boss", born 1949), American singer and songwriter
Politicians
- Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Boss Shepherd (Alexander Robey Shepherd, 1835–1902), 19th-century politician in Washington, D.C.
- Boss Tweed (William M. Tweed, 1823–1878), notoriously corrupt 19th-century politician in New York City
Other people
- Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Boss (Mazinger), from the anime Mazinger Z
- Boss (Transformers), a Transformers character
- Big Boss (C.O.P.S.), a crime boss from the animated series C.O.P.S.
- Big Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the Metal Gear video game series
- Boss Hogg, the main villain of the television show The Dukes of Hazzard
- Pointy-haired Boss, the office nemesis of cartoon character Dilbert
- The Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- "The Boss," title bestowed upon the narrator of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- "The Boss", Nicolas Lucifer III, from the animated series The Baskervilles
- "The Boss" (simply known as "playa" in the first game), the main character of the Saints Row series
Film
- The Boss (1915 film), a silent film based on a play by Edward Sheldon (see below)
- The Boss (1956 film), an American film by Byron Haskin
- The Boss (1973 film) or Il Boss, an Italian crime film
- The Boss (1975 film) or Boss Nigger, a blaxploitation film
- The Boss, a 2005 short film starring Jennifer Sciole
- Boss (2006 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
- Boss (2011 film), an Indian Kannada-language film
- Boss: Born to Rule, an Indian Bengali-language film starring Jeet
- Boss (2013 Hindi film), an Indian Hindi-language film starring Akshay Kumar
- The Boss (2016 film), an American film starring Melissa McCarthy
Literature
- Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, a 1971 book by Mike Royko
- The Boss, a 1911 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon
Music
- Bands
- Boss (Australian band), a 1980s hard rock band
- The Boss (band), a South Korean boy band
- Albums
- Boss (album), by Magik Markers, 2007
- The Boss (Diana Ross album), 1979
- The Boss (Jimmy Smith album), 1968
- The Boss (Timati album), 2009
- Songs
- "Boss" (Fifth Harmony song)
- "The Boss" (Diana Ross song)
- "The Boss" (Rick Ross song)
- "The Boss", a song by James Brown from the soundtrack of the 1973 film Black Caesar
- "The Boss", a song from the 2007 Sivaji film soundtrack album
Radio
- Boss Radio, a 1960s pop radio format
Television
- Boss (TV series), a 2011 US series starring Kelsey Grammer
- Boss, a 2009 Japanese drama
- The Boss (TV series) or The Peter Principle, a British television sitcom
- "Boss", an episode of Life's Work
Video games
- Boss (video gaming), a particularly powerful enemy or opponent in a video game
Companies and organizations
- Boss (soft drink), a brand of coffee-flavored beverages
- Boss Corporation, a company that manufactures guitar accessories and audio equipment
- Ballistic Optimizing Shooting System, from Browning Arms Company
- Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), in Boulder, Colorado
- South African Bureau of State Security (B.O.S.S.), the South African security police from 1966–1980
Science and technology
- Boss (engineering), an engineering term for a protrusion type feature
- BOSS (molecular mechanics) (Biochemical and Organic Simulation System), a molecular modeling program
- Balanced Optical SteadyShot, an image stabilization technology used in Sony video cameras
- Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
- BOSS Great Wall, the largest known galaxy wall
- Bharat Operating System Solutions, GNU/Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS/C-DAC, India
- Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a system for observing distant planets
- Bride of sevenless, a promoter for the sevenless gene* "Boss", nickname of the robot that won the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge
- Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform initiative
Other uses
- Boss (architecture), a protruding stone, often decoratively carved
- The Boss (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis
- Shield boss, the domed metal centre to a shield
- A series of modified Ford engines used for NASCAR racing, including:
- "Boss", the bone shield of some adult Bovinae bull’s horns
- Boss, the hub of a propeller
- Boss, an alternate name for one personality type in the Enneagram of Personality theory
- Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, fictional supercomputer in the Doctor Who television serial The Green Death
See also
- El Jefe (disambiguation)
- Snoop Dogg ("The Boss Dogg", born 1971), American rapper and record producer
- Swelling (medical), referred to as bossing
- Ray Traylor (1963–2004), professional wrestler known as "The Big Boss Man"