A person who enjoys consuming large amounts of alcohol, acting rowdy, and splitting peoples wigs. All because they have entirely too much time on their hands.
Believe me, you don't want to go to that party. It'll be full of geezers, all getting sloppy and looking for trouble.
Slang An old person, especially an eccentric old man.
Different form of middle English word - guiser (gysar), masquerader. It means to dress in disguise
WORD HISTORY: The word goes back to a custom at Christmas where people would dress up and give presents to the poor. Normally it was old men who were well established who would dress up.
Typically working class, white, English tradesmen.
Although not all, many:
- are often (former) alcoholics and drug addicts.
- tend to be contempt or even hostile towards ethnic minorities and as such, socially right wing.
- are dismissive of the arts.
- are heavily tattooed all across the body.
- have very little to low qualifications from formal education.
- don't use correct grammar on social media.
- are very interested in physical sports such as boxing and football.
- frequent the pub.
*On Facebook*
Geezer 1: hav a look at this fella 👍🏻
Geezer 2: thats wicked m8 new van?
Geezer 1: yer mate its gonna help me business big time. old one was ge.ttin a bit old an shite.
Geezer: Any labourers want a days work tomorrow's scaffolding ??