geezer

noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, informal)A male person.

   “You are a silly young geezer.”

   “See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.”

2. (Cockney, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.

   “Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense”

   “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.”

   “He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.”

   “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. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)Term of address for a male.

   “Hi, geezer, you alright?”

4. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes)An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.

   “In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.”

   “The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.”

   “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. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, archaic, slang)Wife; old woman.

   “He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.”

   “This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.”

6. (South-Africa, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).