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If this whole rock and roll thing doesn’t work out Dave Grohl can definitely pivot to pit boss.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
Durable sailcloth, metal rivets, and lots of pocket space pockets make this Flint and Tinder apron an excellent gift for the pit boss in your life.
—John Thompson, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
There’s her first cousin who worked in housekeeping; her grandfather who was a casino pit boss; an uncle who was a maintenance engineer; a cousin who was a cocktail waitress; nieces and nephews who work the front desks of big hotels.
—Isabel González Whitaker, ELLE, 22 Sep. 2022
In the ‘40s Jack Durant worked as a pit boss at the Flamingo Hotel for legendary gangster Bugsey Siegal.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2022
With Walter gone, Susie stepped up as the smokehouse's pit boss.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2020
The pit boss, however, needed to suit up in trousers made of a more dignified fabric, monitor gamblers at arm’s length and glad-hand with regulars.
—1843, 19 June 2020
Working-class Kay (Lawson), a casino pit boss, and handyman Mike (Biggs) barely got through high school, but they’re determined to bring some degree of normalcy to a home with three sky-high-IQ kids.
—Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
If the rules say that a tire can’t exceed a certain width, that pit boss is going to have tires that are built to that limit and not a millimeter less.
—Jeré Longman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
Durable sailcloth, metal rivets, and lots of pocket space pockets make this Flint and Tinder apron an excellent gift for the pit boss in your life.
—John Thompson, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
There’s her first cousin who worked in housekeeping; her grandfather who was a casino pit boss; an uncle who was a maintenance engineer; a cousin who was a cocktail waitress; nieces and nephews who work the front desks of big hotels.
—Isabel González Whitaker, ELLE, 22 Sep. 2022
In the ‘40s Jack Durant worked as a pit boss at the Flamingo Hotel for legendary gangster Bugsey Siegal.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2022
With Walter gone, Susie stepped up as the smokehouse's pit boss.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2020
The pit boss, however, needed to suit up in trousers made of a more dignified fabric, monitor gamblers at arm’s length and glad-hand with regulars.
—1843, 19 June 2020
Working-class Kay (Lawson), a casino pit boss, and handyman Mike (Biggs) barely got through high school, but they’re determined to bring some degree of normalcy to a home with three sky-high-IQ kids.
—Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
If the rules say that a tire can’t exceed a certain width, that pit boss is going to have tires that are built to that limit and not a millimeter less.
—Jeré Longman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
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First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Pit boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pit%20boss. Accessed 7 Jun. 2023.
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