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  • Boz was an early pen name of Charles Dickens, and the name under which he published his first work, Sketches by Boz. The name came from "the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of The Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz."
  • The Boz was/is the nickname of the former American Football player and sometime actor Brian Bosworth.
  • The bass guitarist Boz Burrell was credited on at least one album simply as Boz.
  • Boz is a commune of the Ain département in France
  • Boz Scaggs, born William Royce Scaggs (1944), is an Ohio-born Texan singer, songwriter and guitarist. He recorded his first solo album Boz in 1965.
  • Boz-word for goat in Farsi. can be used as an insult. Also refers to the legendary Boz Man, a Persian Folk Tale. This Boz Man would come and steal all the young children in ancient Persia until the fabled Jasonechen came and defeated it