Meaning

(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in the US) A male person..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in the US) A male person.
2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, chiefly Cockney, slang) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Term of address for a male.
4. (informal, chiefly Canada, US, sometimes mildly derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
5. (archaic, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Wife; old woman.
6. (South Africa) Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Hi, geezer, you alright?

In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.

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• geezers

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