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dynamite in bed

I'm gonna love you like you're my boss and I'm your right-hand man

Created on 2008-02-24 13:24:31 (#15011778), last updated 2009-05-12

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Name:	gokudera = dynamite in bed
Birthdate:	1984-12-07

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There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

paramore, my hero

hitman, right-hand man, mafia boss.

. boss

Origin: 1635

As far as we know, the first boss arrived in English-speaking North America on November 28, 1635. This is the entry for that date in the journal of John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay: "Here arrived a small Norsey bark, of twenty-five tons, sent by the Lords Say, etc., with one Gardiner, an expert engineer or work base, and provisions of all sorts, to begin a fort at the mouth of Connecticut."

That base was the Dutch word we now know as boss. Ironically, boss Gardiner was building a fort to keep out the Dutch, who had settled New Amsterdam (later New York) to the south. But the English language readily admitted the Dutch word. And boss grew in popularity over the years, gradually taking the place of master as the latter became associated with slavery. "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master," in Lincoln's later words. Boss was plain and emphatic, too, making it a useful informal substitute for words like employer, supervisor, and foreman.

In the nineteenth century, only boss would do to describe a new kind of political leader who came to dominate local politics through patronage and corruption. The most notorious was the ruler of New York City in the mid-nineteenth century, "Boss" William Tweed. From that kind of boss it was a short jump in meaning to refer to a leader of organized criminal activity as boss. Indeed, political and criminal bosses often cooperated, and it could be hard to tell which was which.

But those bosses did not tarnish the basic meaning of the word. Boss remains a respectful way of addressing a person to acknowledge that person's leadership or authority. And in modern slang use, boss as an adjective means "excellent, outstanding, superior," if sometimes said humorously instead of with awe.

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