bull
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Is bull a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.broadlycountableuncountable
2. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.Examples: "This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]"; "Bulls are hoping the prosecutions draw a line under the sector's troubled past and will allow it to tap billions of dollars of cash from Wall Street."countableuncountable
3. (US, slang) A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.Examples: "You never waited until the train stopped to get off. The railroad bulls were waiting at the stops searching for freeloaders."; "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."Synonyms: copUScountableslanguncountable
4. (LGBTQ, slang) An elderly lesbian.countableslanguncountable
5. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.Examples: "Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon."Synonyms: bullseyeUKcountablehistoricalobsoleteslanguncountable
6. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.Examples: "A second good game was to cannon one galloping camel with another, and crash it into a near tree. Either the tree went down (valley trees in the light Hejaz soil were notably unstable things) or the rider was scratched and torn; or, best of all, he was swept quite out of his saddle, and left impaled on a thorny branch, if not dropped violently to the ground. This counted as a bull, and was very popular with everyone but him."UKabbreviationalt-ofclippingcountableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (attributive, of large mammals) Adult male.Examples: "a bull elephant"; "With the low, guttural snarl of the bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman."Synonyms: maleAntonyms: femaleattributivenot-comparable
2. (finance) Characterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise.Examples: "a bull market"Antonyms: bearnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.Examples: "He bulled his way in."intransitiveoften
2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.intransitive
3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).transitive
4. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.Examples: "to bull railroad bonds"transitive
5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.Examples: "to bull the market"transitive
verb (English)
1. (dated) To publish in a papal bull.dated
noun (English)
1. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.euphemisticinformaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.intransitive
2. (UK, military, transitive) To polish (boots) to a high shine.Examples: "We were to repeat our normal practise of me bulling his boots and him ironing my kit."UKtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary