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baas
baas
[
baas
]
noun
Definition:
South Africa
boss:
a form of address used mainly during the apartheid era by non-whites to show respect when addressing a white man or boy, especially an employer
[
Late 18th century. Via Afrikaans< Dutch, "master"
]
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