Definition of bulls Bulls
/bʊˈlz/ - [bulz] -
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Wiktionary 
- bulls (Noun)
Plural of bull.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| bull - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later | ||
| investor someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | ||
| bull - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | ||
| bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" | ||
| horn one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | ||
| bull - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | ||
| cop, copper, fuzz, pig | ||
| police officer, policeman, officer a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer" | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
| bull - a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got" | ||
| bruiser, strapper, Samson | ||
| adult male, man game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" | ||
| bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" | ||
| bull - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle | ||
| bull - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) | ||
| papal bull | ||
| bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" | ||
| bullshit, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit | ||
| buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot, bunk a rough bed (as at a campsite) | ||
| dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, filth, smut a word that is considered to be unmentionable; "`failure' is a dirty word to him" | ||
| bull - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus | ||
| Taurus, Bull | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| bull - the center of a target | ||
| bull's eye | ||
| midpoint, centre, center a low-lying region in central France | ||
| bull - the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20 | ||
| Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull | ||
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| bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | ||
| job, speculate work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" | ||
| investing, investment the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | ||
| bull - advance in price; "stocks were bulling" | ||
| climb, go up, rise improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder" | ||
| bull - push or force; "He bulled through his demands" | ||
| bull through | ||
| bear on, push press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" | ||
| bull - speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" | ||
| talk through one's hat, bullshit, fake | ||
| feign, sham, dissemble, affect, pretend make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" | ||
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Wiktionary
- bull (Noun)
The uncastrated adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. - bull (Noun)
The adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants and seals. - bull (Noun)
A large, strong man. - bull (Noun)
An investor who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices. - bull (Noun)
A policeman. - bull (Noun)
A male person. - bull (Noun)
A papal bull , an official document or edict from the Pope. - bull (Noun)
A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope. - bull (Noun)
A lie. - bull (Noun)
Nonsense. - bull (Noun)
A bubble. - bull (Verb)
To force oneself in a particular direction. - bull (Verb)
To lie, to tell untruths. - bull (Verb)
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. - bull (Verb)
To polish boots to a high shine. - bull (Verb)
To endeavour to raise the market price of. - bull (Verb)
To endeavour to raise prices in. - bull (Verb)
To publish in a Papal bull. - bull (Verb)
To mock, cheat. - bull (Adjective)
Large and strong, like a bull. - bull (Adjective)
Of large mammals, male. - bull (Adjective)
Of a market in which prices are rising.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bull (n.)
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. - bull (n.)
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action. - bull (n.)
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. - bull (n.)
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades. - bull (n.)
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. - bull (a.)
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. - bull (v. i.)
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. - bull (v. t.)
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4. - bull (v. i.)
A seal. See Bulla. - bull (v. i.)
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. - bull (v. i.)
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Male bovine animal. -
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Papal charter of the middle ages. -
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Seal of gold or lead, sometimes of silver. -
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The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20. -
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A person who is born while the sun is in Taurus.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bool, n. the male of the ox kind: an old male whale, fur-seal, &c.: a sign of the zodiac: one who tries artificially and unduly to raise the price of stocks, and speculates on a rise.—adj. denoting largeness of size—used in composition, as bull-trout: favourable to the bulls, rising.—v.t. to try to raise, as the price of shares, artificially: to copulate with a cow, of a bull.—v.i. to be in heat, of a cow.—ns. Bull′-baiting, the sport of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs; Bull′-bat (U.S.), the night-hawk or goat-sucker; Bull′-beef, the beef or flesh of bulls, coarse beef: (Shak., in pl.) Bull′-beeves; Bull′-begg′ar, a hobgoblin, &c.; Bull′-calf, a male calf: a stupid fellow, a lout; Bull′-dance, a dance of men only; Bull′dog, a breed of dogs of great courage, formerly used for baiting bulls, its general appearance that of a smooth-coated, compact dog, low in stature, but broad and powerful, with a massive head, large in proportion to its body: a person of obstinate courage: a short-barrelled revolver of large calibre: a proctor's attendant at Oxford and Cambridge.—v.t. Bull′-dose (U.S.) to intimidate, bully: flog.—n. Bull′-dōs′er.—adj. Bull′-faced, having a large face.—ns. Bull′-fight, a popular spectacle in Spain, in which a bull is goaded to fury in a kind of circus by mounted picadores armed with lances, and finally despatched by a specially skilful espada or swordsman; Bull′-fight′er; Bull′-finch, a species of red-breasted finch a little larger than the common linnet, closely allied to the grossbeaks and crossbills: a kind of hedge hard to jump; Bull′-frog, a large North American frog.—adj. Bull′-front′ed, having a front or forehead like a bull.—n. Bull′-head, or Miller's Thumb, a small river fish remarkable for its large, flat head.—adj. Bull′-head′ed, impetuous and obstinate.—n. Bull′-head′edness.—adj. Bull′ish.—ns. Bull′ock, an ox or castrated bull; Bull′-roar′er, a provincial English name for a boy's plaything, made of an oblong piece of wood, to one end of which a string is tied, then twisted tightly round the finger, when the whole is whirled rapidly round and round until a loud and peculiar whirring noise is produced—the native Australian turndun, the rhombos of the Greek mysteries; Bull's′-eye, the central boss formed in making a sheet of blown glass (hence adj. Bull's′-eyed), a round piece of glass in a lantern, a policeman's lantern, a round opening or window: the centre of a target, of a different colour from the rest, and usually round: a thick lump of coloured or striped candy; Bull′-terr′ier, a species of dog, a cross-breed between the bulldog and the terrier; Bull′-trout, a large trout of the salmon genus, also migratory in its habits, often called the Gray Trout; Bull′-whack, a heavy whip.—v.t. to lash with such.—n. Bull′wort, the bishop's weed.—Bull into, to plunge hastily into.—A bull in a china-shop, a synonym for a man who does harm through ignorance or fury, a man completely out of place.—Take the bull by the horns, to face a danger or difficulty with courage, to take the initiative boldly in a struggle. [M.E. bole, prob. Scand. bole, boli; most prob. cog. with Bellow.] -
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bool, n. an edict of the pope which has his seal affixed.—adj. Bullan′tic—n. Bull′ary, a collection of papal bulls. [L. bulla, a knob, a leaden seal.] -
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bool, n. a ludicrous blunder in speech implying some obvious absurdity or contradiction, often said to be an especial prerogative of Irishmen—'I was a fine child, but they changed me.' [Prob. O. Fr. boul, cheat.] -
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bool, n. drink made by pouring water into a cask that had held liquor
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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bull
An old male whale. Also, a small keg; also the weak grog made by pouring water into a spirit-cask nearly empty.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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bull
A fort which the English possessed in Canada, and which constituted one of their military depots; it was captured by the French, March 27, 1756.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on speculation for time, i.e. agrees with the seller, called a Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley. See LAME DUCK and BEAR. -
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A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master. -
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A crown piece. A half bull; half a crown.
