section boss
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of section boss
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss.
From Time Magazine Archive
I want them to do the sort of thing you have been doing, each of them to act as section boss, under you, over fifty men.
From Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory
There wasn't any one in authority, even so mild an authority as a section boss, who hadn't fired Sammy Durgan so often that it had grown on them like a habit.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
"Listen to——" "Yez have yer nerve wid yez!" observed the section boss caustically.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Reckons as how I ain't wanted 'round dis section, boss.
From The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf by Quincy Allen
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