geezer

noun

1. 1

   datedA male person.

   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.

2. 2

   slangSomeone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.

   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.

3. 3

   slangTerm of address for a male.

   Hi, geezer, you alright?

4. 4

   informalAn old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.

   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”?

5. 5

   archaicWife; old woman.

   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.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of geyserAlternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).

Forms

plural

geezers