geezer

Noun

geezer (plural geezers)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, informal) A male person.
   • You are a silly young geezer.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Right Ho, Jeeves
   • See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)

   Synonyms:

   bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove

2. (Cockney, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) 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 sense2002, “Geezers need excitement”, in Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets
   • 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.2003, Carlton Leach, Muscle, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   spiv, wide boy

3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Term of address for a male.
   • Hi, geezer, you alright?

   Synonyms:

   mate, babber, billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy, butty, chaver

4. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes) 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.1885, Corin, The Truth about the Stage
   • The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.2000 August 25, Moira McDonald, “Outtakes”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 06 Sep 2008

   Synonyms:

   antiquity, codger, gadgie, gaffer, gramps, greybeard, old codger, old fart, old man, unc

5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, archaic, slang) Wife; old woman.
   • He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.1882, J. F. Mitchell, Jimmy Johnson's Holiday
   • This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.1886, Her Mother's Got the Hump

   Synonyms:

   ball and chain, better half, boss, bride, dutch, 'er indoors, frow, her indoors, lady, little woman