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Oliver Schick
I'm definitely not using boss man in a casual racism way but happy to stop using it if that's the way it's perceived.
I've always seen it as a term of deference to an authority figure - owner of a shop - in the same way I call most brown men older than me uncle, often just to wind them up if they're obviously a similar age or younger than me