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plural geezers
(informal, chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in the US) A male person. quotations examples
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)
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, chiefly Cockney, slang) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. quotations
Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
2002, “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
He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
2009, Dreda Say Mitchell, Geezer Girls, Hachette UK
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.
2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Term of address for a male.
(informal, chiefly Canada, US, sometimes mildly derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man. quotations examples
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 6 September 2008
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”?
2014, The Geezer Gallery, (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 31 January 2014
(archaic, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Wife; old woman. quotations
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
(South Africa) Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”). examples