hizzoner

plural hizzoners

1. humorousinformaloftenAny mayor

   Not even Mayor Bloomberg is safe from jury duty.

   2007 August 5, Kirsten Danis, “Hizzoner will honor jury-duty obligation”, in New York Daily News

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   Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2.

   1955 January 3, “Hizzoner the Heelobowie”, in Time

   He's the mayor's favorite golf partner. Once I had to deliver an envelope to hizzoner at the Bel-Air Country Club, and he introduced me to Sturmack.

   1998, Stuart Woods, Swimming to Catalina, HarperCollins, page 103

   The publisher of Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner promises to stem his paper’s criticism of Mayor Willie Brown if Hizzoner doesn’t oppose Hearst's takeover of the rival Chronicle.

   2001, Gene Roberts et al., editors, Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering, The University of Arkansas Press, page 7

1. USpronunciation spellingslangEye dialect spelling of His Honor, the mayor, especially of a large city.

   1930, John Bright, Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago, [book title].

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   Minnesota: Meet Hizzoner the Mayor... Canon... would go through an elaborate bowing-and-scraping routine as he addressed Hizzoner the Mayor.

   1991, Max M. Kampelman, Entering New Worlds: The Memoirs of a Private Man in Public Life, page 56

   In 1989, they wrote a book, entitled His Eminence and Hizzoner, in which they set forth their differences in amicable fashion.

   2002, James Gill, For James and Gillian: Jim Gill's New York, page 121