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Fat and satisfied with pride. Swollen in satisfaction and pride. Leaning back in superiority. Joy derived from dominating someone so much that no words are enough to describe it, resulting in a person being böse.
Derives from a mock-German version of the Swedish word pösig.
English spelling: Boese.
"That is truly a böse-man"
"I feel so böse right now"
"BÖSE!"
"I've never seen anything that böse in my entire life!"
Böse by Oscar Pettersson December 27, 2006
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Highly overrated company that manufactures inferrior audio components that fail to compete with equipment in a pricerange that undercuts many Bose products tenfold.

Paper cones, 'secret' frequency response, and wide gaps in the crossover dynamics make for muddy and empty sound with high distortion in the upper ranges coupled with limited bass response from the 'bass module,' which is little more than 3 small drivers arranged in a sequence.
No highs, no lows, must be Bose!
Bose by Daniel Roberts November 26, 2003
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Speaker corp considered highly of by average consumers who have never compared bose to anything other than their $50 radio.

Speaker corp whose flagshit $3500 Lifestyle50 is outperformed by a $700 Onkyo model.

What gullible people buy when they have too much money to spend and not enough time to research.

A name who ignites flames in the hearts of audio enthusiast

A speaker corp who uses shoddy materials, overprices the product, and places displays and demos next to $200 models in order to sound decent by comparison

A speaker corp who uses 5" subwoofers in a $3500 home theater system (note: 5" does not a subwoofer make)

A gullible consumer magnet
Bose uses the same speakers for the $3500 and the $1500 model.
Bose by OriginalReaper December 22, 2003
A crap speaker brand that is there to rip you off.
"My speakers suck"

"My headphones fell apart"

"My subwoofer is talking"

"My computer speakers sound like dollar store headphones in a paper towel roll"

"How much did you pay for this?! It sounds so much better than my Bose system!"
"$200."
"..."
Bose by Lasagna Feet December 21, 2008
Buy
Other
Stereo
Equipment

or else you'll have a

Bad
Or
Sad
Experience

Specifically, expensive car stereos' BOSE systems are wired so stupid that you have to gut the ENTIRE system just to upgrade it. Their speakers are in weird non-standard sizes and 1- or 2-ohm impedance (the norm is 4-ohm) and each has its own amplifier. They have all sorts of amplifiers and wires throughout the car it's a Bermuda Triangle. The head-unit is also specially matched to these shit speakers!

Try and install an aftermarket head-unit and it will blow up because it thinks the speakers are shorted (lower impedance noted above). Try and replace the speakers and it will not sound as loud because of that same problem. Most people just roll their eyes and say, "Bose?? rip that shit out and start over, new speakers, new stereo, rewire!!!!!!!!!"

Some housewives think BOSE is the best, but really it's not. But you know what, even their stereos are like filet-mignon prices for a Big Mac, they deserve their money since their marketing is top-notch. Too bad their sound quality isn't as good as their prices would suggest, or as good as their marketing dept!!
Their sound quality is so bad their official slogan is
no highs, no lows, must be BOSE

And yes, there is a real person named Amit Bose (I think that's it)
bose by Angelino August 5, 2007
Overpriced speakers that everyone beleives are good when they have paper cones and shitty worksmanship
I feel like wasting money, I should buy some Bose
Bose by Anonymous November 5, 2003
a company known across the industry by their slogan "no highs? no lows? MUST be bose!" enough said
my system sucks!
It must be bose!
bose by JFelds April 13, 2007
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