straw boss

1. 1.

   a member of a work gang who supervises the other workers

   Synonymsassistant foreman

   Broaderforeman

Questions about straw boss

What does straw boss mean?

straw boss means "a member of a work gang who supervises the other workers".

What is another word for straw boss?

Close synonyms include assistant foreman. 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 straw boss a common word?

straw boss 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.