Or our supervisors at work, for that matter.
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of BOSS
1
a : a protuberant part or body <a boss of granite> <a boss on an animal's horn> b : a raised ornamentation : stud c : an ornamental projecting block used in architecture
2
: a soft pad used in ceramics and glassmaking
3
: the hub of a propeller
I can kinda understand the first one, insofar as the difficulty of a boss is higher than that of normal enemies in a video game, and that if you drew a line graph with the Y-axis representing difficulty level and the X-axis representing different types of enemies the spike on boss would protrude higher than the rest of the line, but I really doubt that's the reasoning.
I assume it's a translation error from Japan. It has to be.
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