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| straw boss (plural straw boss·es) |
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| Definition: |
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worker and assistant foreman: a worker who also supervises a small work crew, acting as an assistant to the foreman
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informal
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| [< U.S. farms, where the second-in-command was formerly responsible for straw coming out of the thresher] |
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