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When and how, but more importantly, why did the word "boss" become synonymous with "wonderful"? It seems that every advertisement uses the word to refer to their product now. | ||
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The OED Online:
Online Etymology Dictionary
World Wide Words
I can see how boss could be applied to something seen as superior in the same way that your supervisor(superior)at work is your boss. I realize you're retired now, but you still have a boss. And you better be nice to her. And keep working on that honey do list. | |||
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"Boss sauce" was a sauce served by Macheesemo Mouse, a fast food chain in Portland, Oregon, back in the 1970s. It lived up to the definition of being superlative. Alas, the chain died when its founder did, craching a perfectly good De Haviland Canada Beaver into the Willamette River - a double loss if, like me, you're an aeroplane freak who loves "healthy Mexican food." (They only used fresh, mostly organic ingrredients) | |||
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And then of course there's this definition:
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