geezer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A male person.

   • You are a silly young geezer.
   • See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.
2. 2

   Someone affable but morally dubious

   Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.

   • Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
   • He turned out to be a proper geezer who was willing to listen to my proposition that if he took the door at the Ministry, I would pay him £400 a month to mark my cards.
   • He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
3. 3

   Term of address for a male.

   • Hi, geezer, you alright?
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   1. 4

      An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.

      • In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
      • The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
      • Why Geezer? Why would a fine arts gallery choose a name that conjures images of a grumpy old guy sitting on the front porch hollering, “get off my lawn”?
   2. 5

      Wife

      Wife; old woman.

      • He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.
      • This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
   3. 6

      Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).

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