A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk (Turkish basibozuk, literally "damaged head", also named delibas, literally "crazy head", both meaning "free headed", "leaderless", "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. A Bashi-Bazouk may be Turk but also Circassian, Kurd, Arab, Albanian. They were particularly noted for their lack of discipline.