boss around

Questions about boss around

What does boss around mean?

boss around means "be bossy towards".

What is another word for boss around?

Close synonyms include strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boss around a common word?

boss around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.