boss-eyed


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boss-eyed

adj
(Pathology) informal having a squint
[C19: from boss to miss or bungle a shot at a target (dialect)]
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Adj.1.boss-eyed - (British informal) cross-eyed
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
cross-eyed - having convergent strabismus
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Translations

boss-eyed

[ˌbɒsˈaɪd] ADJbizco
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boss-eyed

adj (Brit inf) → schielend attr; to be boss-eyedschielen, einen Knick in der Optik haben (inf)
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It was a validation of the right to be strange, to be unusual, to be you Suddenly it was OK to be weird or gay or geeky, a fey boy or a tough girl, a weed or a nerd, wonky-toothed or boss-eyed. Bowie was all these things and he was the coolest rock star ever.
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Because they are unable to say "The tall one" or "The blond one", they have to say, "Him over there, the specky, boss-eyed one.
Armed with a picture of the distinctively boss-eyed Brit to show locals, Therese planned to find his hideout, confront the man she was married to for 22 years about deserting his family - and shop him.
Not to mention capable of turning the rule set reviewers temporarily boss-eyed in the process.
But there is occasionally a stall where budding footballers can indulge in a spot of target practice (normally to win some boss-eyed fake Garfield toy knocked up in a sweat shop).
HE'S short and squat, boss-eyed and snaggle-toothed, with a belly that strains at the seams of his Farrah slacks.
"She came back pretty 'boss-eyed' from Brighton," her trainer Anabel King reported.
We are treated to the musing of boss-eyed Boz who, in his sister's words, is "a bit touched".
The vain, boss-eyed lunatic gave me hours of pleasure with her mindless wittering, and if BB bosses were worried she might say something inappropriate, they needn't have bothered - nothing she said made any sense anyway.