bozo n.1
1. a person, a fellow, a man; there is a slight overtone of clownishness.
![]() | One Man’s War (1928) 123: One bozo says, ‘Joe, the last guy who cut my hair got bumped off.’ [Ibid.] 18 July 157: That bozo had the German colonel marching in front. | diary 27 June in|
![]() | Leave it to Psmith (1993) 515: Gosh-dingit, you leave me a coupla days back saying you’re going to stick up this bozo. | |
![]() | Walls Of Jericho 34: Wise guy [...] Can y’ beat it —? Wonder how many kinds of a jackass that bozo thinks I am? | |
![]() | Circus of Dr Lao 87: Well, the Chinks they haul out the last guy, a great big bozo. | |
![]() | Roofs of Paris (1983) 46: What the fuck’s wrong with you bozos, anyway? | |
![]() | Mating Season 52: [A] broad-shouldered bozo of about thirty. | |
![]() | Laughing to Keep from Crying 61: I spit in a bozo’s eye yesterday and killed him stone dead! I spit bullets. | |
![]() | Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 88: One is entitled to expect even bozos of course fibre to have a certain amount of delicacy. | |
![]() | letter in Charters II (1999) 377: What these bozos and their friends are up to now is simply the last act in their original adoption and betrayal of any truly ‘beat’ credo. | |
![]() | Ladies’ Man (1985) 72: Some organic-looking bozo in rim-less glasses. | |
![]() | Train to Hell 100: This bozo kept dragging me round with him. | |
![]() | Spidertown (1994) 73: Did’ju hear this bozo say Petey or din’chu? | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 9 Aug. 1: Why is the acclaimed author of One Flew OverThe Cuckoo’s Nest [...] travelling around the country with ‘a bunch of bozos’? | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 25 Feb. 14: With Commons all-night jamming / We’ll wig those bozos out. | |
![]() | Something Fishy (2006) 41: A bunch of bozos were playing pool. | |
![]() | I Am Already Dead 216: ‘I’ve got an address for you. The bozo who robbed my safe’. |
2. as a term of address.
![]() | Cutie 20: ‘Say, bozo,’ Cutie said, handing him an O.O. [...] ‘what kind of racket is this?’. | |
![]() | Tropic of Cancer (1963) 159: Hold on there, bozo, not so fast! | |
![]() | Dames Don’t Care (1960) 68: Well, bozos [...] here I am again. | |
![]() | Night and the City 122: Listen, Bozo, d’you want to make a thousand pounds a week? | |
![]() | Deathbird Stories (1978) 44: ‘Boze, you de-mote me, true!’ ‘And stop calling me a bozo, you lousy degenerate.’. | ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in|
![]() | Pretty in Pink 143: You got a problem, bozo? |
3. a fool, an idiot.
![]() | Dayton Herald (OH) 18 Apr. 28/2: ‘I am not a bum. I maybe a bozo — may be, mind you — but I am by no means a bum’. | |
![]() | Put on the Spot 17: You think that bozo looks good, do you? | |
![]() | Adventures of a Young Man 255: Those bozos are getting my goat. | |
![]() | Dan Turner Detective Mar. 🌐 Waldring was a runty, lard-faced bozo who owned and operated a minor independent neighborhood movie theater. | ‘Dead Man’s Shakedown’ in|
![]() | Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Recruit [...] bozo. | |
![]() | Come in Spinner (1960) 319: Take a look at them fat old bozos out in the other room and see what high livin’ and drink and no exercise does to yer. | |
![]() | CUSS 87: Bozo A person who always does the wrong thing. | et al.|
![]() | Ladies’ Man (1985) 26: I can handle that bozo. | |
![]() | Breaks 115: She must have seen ten thousand precocious bozos like me. | |
![]() | Homeboy 5: The Bus Bozo wouldn’t let up until she told him her real name. | |
![]() | Hurricane Punch 141: I’m going to throw it away as soon as I get these bozos out the door. | |
[ | ![]() | http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Bozo — Character who insults customers to induce them to try to throw balls to spill him in a dunk tank]. | ‘Carny Lingo’ in
![]() | 🎵 The other nigga, he a bozo. | ‘OOOUUU’|
![]() | Silver [ebook] ‘You gave it to that bozo Doug Thunkleton’. | |
![]() | Joey Piss Pot 30: ‘That orange fuckin’ Bozo was in the White House, him and his greedy fuckin’ kids [...] That’s a fuckin’ crime family’. |
4. a tough, a thug.
![]() | Gangster Girl 148: We can find what flat dem bozos come out of. | |
![]() | Spicy Detective Sept. 🌐 The masked bozo walked towards me. He shoved the Filipino wren ahead of him toward my desk. | ‘Falling Star’ in|
![]() | Bruiser 68: There ain’t nobody knockin’ this bozo out of the ring. | |
![]() | Quick Brown Fox 225: ‘It’ll make a hell of a difference,’ shouted Joe, ‘if all us guys all over the country lay down and let bozos like Harding trample over us’. | |
![]() | Murder Me for Nickels (2004) 65: By seven I had lined up five bozos for a quick job on Bonetti’s depot [...] large of muscle and small of head. | |
![]() | Fantastic Four Annual 34: That gave that masked bozo time to climb down here. | |
![]() | Indep. 7 Feb. 18: The usual throng of villainous-looking musclemen and huge-thighed bozos. |