Boss or BOSS may refer to:

People

• A person in authority over a group, such as a CEO, manager or foreman
• A political boss, one who controls a political machine
• A crime boss, the leader of an independent organized crime outfit

Specific people:

• Boss Tweed, a 19th century politician in New York City
• George Steinbrenner, general partner of baseball's New York Yankees
• Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
• Richard J. Daley, former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Helmut Rahn, German football player

Fictional people:

• The Boss and Big Boss, characters in the Metal Gear video game series
• Big Boss (Leader), crime boss from Hasbro's C.O.P.S.
• "The Boss", nickname of Nicolas Lucifer III from the animated series The Baskervilles

Organizations

• Hugo Boss, a fashion label
• South African Bureau Of State Security, the South African secret police from 1966 - 1980
• BOSS, a company that manufactures guitar accessories

Phrases

• Backwards prison slang for "Sorry Son-Of-a-Bitch," most commonly used while referring to correctional officers

Things

• A video game boss, a particularly powerful enemy in a video game
• A mechanical boss, a protuberance used for attachment, alignment or strengthening
• A ceiling boss, a protruding stone, often decoratively carved, placed at the intersection of the ribs of a vault; or a similar wooden feature at the intersection of ceiling beams
• Boss, a brand of coffee and coffee flavored beverages marketed in Japan by Suntory
• Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a proposed system for directly observing distant planets using an occultation technique with a space telescope
• Browning's Ballistic Optimizing Shooting System

Dutch loanwords

Boss | Padrón | Boss | ボス (曖昧さ回避) | Boss | 老板