bossdomn.
/ˈbɒsdəm/ Originally U.S.
The condition of being a boss; that which constitutes the sphere of influence of a political boss; the control of politics by bosses.
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1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxiii. 462 The extinction of the Boss himself and of bossdom.
1893 Black & White 1 Apr. 383/1 He was going to make John Bull realise that his days of bossdom were over.
1894 Citizen (Albion, Mich.) 293 It is not healthy for a party, if the few are allowed to do all and say all. That way Rings and Bossdom lie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.1888- not have all one's marbles
- not here to fuck spiders
- not if i can help it
- not if i could help it
- not if i etc can help it
- not if i etc could help it
- not if i he can help it
- not if i he could help it
- not if i know it
- not if i she can help it
- not if i she could help it
- not if you paid me
- not impossibly
- not improbably
- not in a million years
- not in a month of sundays
- not in a person's dictionary
- not in a week of sundays
- not in kansas anymore
- not in order
- not in service
- not in the least
- not in these trousers
- not infrequently
- not just