English
geezer
Pronunciation
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈɡizɚ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɡiːzə/
Noun

geezer (plural geezers)

  1. (informal, chiefly, British, dated in US) A male person.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:man
  2. (UK, chiefly, Cockney, slang) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
    Synonyms: spiv, wide boy
    • 2003, Carlton Leach, Muscle, John Blake Publishing ISBN 9781784184728
      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.
    • 2009, Dreda Say Mitchell, Geezer Girls, Hachette UK ISBN 9781848946163
      He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
    • 2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK ISBN 9780755364800
      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. (UK, slang) Term of address for a male.
    Synonyms: mate, Thesaurus:friend
    Hi geezer, you alright?
  4. (informal, chiefly, US, sometimes, mildly, derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:old man
    • 2000, Moira McDonald, "Outtakes ↗," Seattle Times, 25 Aug. (retrieved 6 Sep. 2008):
      The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
    • 2014, The Geezer Gallery, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140428111606/http://www.geezergallery.com/content/why-geezer]," (retrieved 31 Jan 2014):
      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. (South Africa) Alternative form of geyser#English|geyser (“domestic water boiler”)
  6. (archaic, British, slang) Wife; old woman.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:wife, Thesaurus:old woman
    • 1886, Her Mother's Got the Hump:
      This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
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