"boss around" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "* From boss and around.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosses around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossed around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "boss around (third-person singular simple present bosses around, present participle bossing around, simple past and past participle bossed around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence",
          "text": "One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior."
      ],
      "id": "en-boss_around-en-verb-Ak3RI3mI",
      "links": [
        [
          "bossy",
          "bossy"
        ],
        [
          "ordering",
          "ordering"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "boss about"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
          "word": "komennella"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
          "word": "mener à la baguette"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
          "word": "herumkommandieren"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boss around"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "* From boss and around.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosses around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bossed around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "boss around (third-person singular simple present bosses around, present participle bossing around, simple past and past participle bossed around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence",
          "text": "One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bossy",
          "bossy"
        ],
        [
          "ordering",
          "ordering"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boss about"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
      "word": "komennella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
      "word": "mener à la baguette"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to act in a bossy manner",
      "word": "herumkommandieren"
    }
  ],
  "word": "boss around"
}