Definitions for straw-boss

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Spelling: [straw-baws, -bos]
IPA: /ˈstrɔˌbɔs, -ˌbɒs/

Straw-Boss is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 296 anagrams from letters in straw-boss (-aborssstw).

Definitions for straw-boss

noun

  1. a member of a work crew, as in a factory or logging camp, who acts as a boss; assistant foreman.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as a straw boss to:

Origin of straw-boss

An Americanism dating back to 1890-95

Examples for straw-boss

One time the grown men and women was choppin' two rows to our one, and a straw-boss slave twit us and call us lazy.

What would happen if Rennie, the dear mother and straw-boss of us all, should slip before a car and be seriously injured to-night?

Swamp's End—and the roaring hilarity thereof—for man and boy, straw-boss and cookee, of the lumber-jacks!

He had bluffed the straw-boss, sure enough; but still the thing wasnt entirely satisfactory.

A straw-boss, to be sure, but still a boss—and now he had lost his job.

He was a new man, and therefore was expected to take signals from the oldest man on the job,—a sort of straw-boss.

Bud Spillman, out of all the hundreds of thousands of possible men, had been made his straw-boss at the "Trailer."

Word Value for straw-boss
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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