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bos

bos is the plural of bo.

Meaning of bo

Noun (1)

bo (plural bos)

  1. (US, slang) Fellow, chap, boy.
    • ‘Never heard of him,’ he smiled. ‘On your way, bo.’1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 255

Noun (2)

bo (plural bos)

  1. A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context.

See all 11 meanings of bo

Noun (1) capitalized: BOS

BOS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bohring-Opitz syndrome.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome.

Proper noun capitalized: BOS

BOS

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Boston.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Book of Shadows.

Noun (2) capitalized: BOs

BOs

  1. (plural) plural of BO

Words formed from bos

Phrases with bos

Questions about bos

What is bos the plural of?
Bos is the plural of bo.
What part of speech is bos?
Bos can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near bos in the dictionary

  1. Borôro
  2. Borăscu
  3. Borůvka's algorithm
  4. Borș
  5. Borșa
  6. bos
  7. bos'n
  8. bos'ns
  9. Bos.
  10. bosa
  11. Bosak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bos (page history and authors); BOS (page history and authors); BOs (page history and authors); bo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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