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Straw boss   /strɔ bɑs/   Listen
Straw boss

noun
1.
A member of a work gang who supervises the other workers.  Synonym: assistant foreman.






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"Straw boss" Quotes from Famous Books



... and down, whereas the instinctive filer, like Carl, draws his file evenly across the metal, and the result fits its socket truly. So he was given welcome, paid twenty-five cents an hour, and made full member of exactly such a gang as he had known at Plato, after he had laughed away the straw boss who tried to make him go ask for a left-handed monkey-wrench. He roomed at a machinists' boarding-house, and enjoyed the furious discussions over religion and the question of air versus water cooling far more than he had ever enjoyed the ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Straw boss" :   honcho, boss, chief, gaffer, foreman



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