Meaning of Geezer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male person.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, informal
2. Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
   Cockney, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
3. Term of address for a male.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
4. An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
   Canada, US, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes
5. Wife; old woman.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, archaic, slang

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“When I'd first met Adam, at work when we were both 23, the fact that he seemed a little rough around the edges appealed to me. He was a bit of a geezer, a joker, one of the lads.”

“Hi, geezer, you alright?”

“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”?”

“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.”

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