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Definition of "guv'nor" []

  • An informal form of address; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house. (noun)

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Use "guv'nor" in a sentence
  • "As expected, the Kat & Alfie Show has taken over? with Shane Richie building every line of dialogue into two minutes of sweaty "Cor blimey guv'nor" patter and Jessie Wallace looking like Ting Tong from Little Britain and cackling at the end of every sentence."
  • "The inspector, too, brings his own back story to the party: Still in mourning for his recently killed wife "more than anything on earth he wanted her back", Lynley is conducting a bureaucratically illicit affair with his female "guv'nor" at the Yard, a dalliance haunted by the memory of his late, beloved Helen."
  • "  "You lookin 'sharp, guv'nor — nothing like charcoal grey," he says."