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bulldog
[ bool-dawg, -dog ]
noun
- one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- Informal. a stubbornly persistent person.
- a short-barreled revolver of large caliber.
- Metallurgy. slag from a puddling furnace.
- an assistant to the proctor at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
adjective
- like or characteristic of a bulldog or of a bulldog's jaws:
bulldog obstinacy.
verb (used with object)
- to attack in the manner of a bulldog.
- Western U.S. to throw (a calf, steer, etc.) to the ground by seizing the horns and twisting the head.
bulldog
/ ˈbʊlˌdɒɡ /
noun
- a sturdy thickset breed of dog with an undershot jaw, short nose, broad head, and a muscular body
- (at Oxford University) an official who accompanies the proctors on ceremonial occasions
- commerce a fixed-interest bond issued in Britain by a foreign borrower
Other Words From
- bulldogged·ness noun
- bulldogger noun
Example Sentences
Despite her challenges, the 12-year-old bulldog mix shines in the limelight, lapping up the attention like a stouter Dolly Parton.
The story begins with Monsanto’s founder John Queeny, a tenacious bulldog of a man, the son of Irish immigrants who sold miracle elixirs and quack cures to wholesalers along with bona fide pharmaceuticals.
He has put his political weight instead behind a quirky vaccination sweepstakes named after his bulldog.
His parents got him a bulldog mix, Delilah, to take care of, and he’s taken up chess to keep his mind occupied.
After requesting a few known toys, the dog’s owner asked the pet to bring the bulldog.
But he thought he might bulldog the case for a while and find a wedge for a lawsuit.
Darren Criss of Glee guest stars in the video as the angry bulldog boyfriend of the poodle.
He seems much more vulnerable now—much more three-dimensional than the macho bulldog we first met in Season 1.
One surprise: the English bulldog finally waddled into the top five, a ranking it had not received in 75 years.
“Every time I turn on the TV, I see a bulldog in a commercial,” she said.
But to-day, though he sees, the power of believing in his own vision and of hanging on to it like a bulldog, seems paralysed.
He was crotchetty and impracticable, a man of rash judgment and hasty action-as brave and as tenacious as a bulldog.
A man who doesn't know a bulldog from a bed-spring isn't likely to be offering a thousand dollars to avenge the death of one.
And now, you young bulldog, back to your room and shake yourself together.
Set a bulldog on hind legs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton.'
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