Meaning of Hizzoner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any mayor
   humorous, informal, often
2. Eye dialect spelling of His Honor, the mayor, especially of a large city.
   US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang

Examples

“1930, John Bright, Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago, [book title].”

“Minnesota: Meet⟳ Hizzoner the Mayor... Canon... would go through an elaborate bowing-and-scraping routine as he addressed Hizzoner the Mayor.”

“In 1989, they wrote a book, entitled His Eminence and Hizzoner, in which they set⟳ forth their differences in amicable fashion.”

“Mike asked nothing in return⟳ for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect⟳ Mike Colikas by a vote⟳ of 2,145 to 2.”

“He's the mayor's favorite golf partner. Once I had to deliver⟳ an envelope to hizzoner at the Bel-Air Country Club, and he introduced me to Sturmack.”

“The publisher of Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner promises to stem his paper’s criticism of Mayor Willie Brown if Hizzoner doesn’t oppose⟳ Hearst's takeover of the rival Chronicle.”

“Not even Mayor Bloomberg is safe from jury duty.”

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