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Verb: boss around
Usage: informal
  1. Repeatedly tell (someone) what to do in an overbearing, domineering, or intimidating way
    "The team leader constantly bossed around the new employees";
    - strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag [N. Amer, informal], ballyrag [N. Amer, informal], hector, push around [informal], boss, push about [informal]

Derived forms: bossing around, bosses around, bossed around

Type of: intimidate