PHB
Appearance
See also: Ph.B.
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After the character in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]PHB (plural PHBs)
- (slang, derogatory) Initialism of pointy-haired boss, an incompetent micromanager.
- 2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future:
- […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]