Meaning of bull | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
2. A lie.
   uncountable
3. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. Specifically, one that is uncastrated. Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex
4. A bubble.
   obsolete
5. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
   countable, uncountable
6. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
   countable, uncountable
7. The constellation and zodiacal sign Taurus.
8. A surname transferred from the nickname derived from the name of the animal.
9. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
10. Nonsense.
    euphemistic, informal, uncountable
11. Specifically, one that is uncastrated
12. Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
13. Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex
14. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
    countable, uncountable
15. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age
16. Any adult male bovine.
    countable, uncountable
17. Any adult male bovine
18. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
    countable, uncountable
19. A large, strong man.
    countable, uncountable
20. An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
    countable, uncountable
21. A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
22. An elderly lesbian.
    countable, slang, uncountable
23. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
    UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable
24. Clipping of bullseye.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
25. The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
    UK, countable, uncountable
26. A man or boy.
    Philadelphia, countable, slang, uncountable
27. Clipping of bullshit.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, euphemistic, informal, slang, uncountable
28. A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
    countable, uncountable
29. A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
30. Beef.
    slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The quick eyes of a female caught sight of him first. With a barking guttural she called the attention of the others. Several huge bulls stood erect to get a better view of the intruder. With bared fangs and bristling necks they advanced slowly toward him, with deep-throated, ominous growls.”

“The upshot of the affair was that she accompanied me next morning. I rowed into the adjoining cove and up to the edge of the beach. There were seals all about us in the water, and the bellowing thousands on the beach compelled us to shout at each other to make ourselves heard. "I know men club them," I said, trying to reassure myself and gazing doubtfully at a large bull, not thirty feet away, upreared on his fore-flippers and regarding me intently. "But the question is, How do they club them?"”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her). Another scenario is that the Vixen has sex with a Bull outside of the couple’s shared abode. Then she comes home and recounts all the details in a blow-by-blow description to turn the Stag on.”

“Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'”

“The Bull reigneth in the neck, & in the throat.”

“Those stars said to belong to the Ram might as well be supposed to belong to the Bull or the Lion.”

“An early Grecian gem shows three nude figures, hand in hand, standing on the head of the Bull, one pointing to seven stars in line over the back, which Landseer referred to the Hyades.”

“In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see the figure of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man.”

“Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the Zodiac would you expect to meet? [...] Not Taurus the Bull, who is paddocked, or Cancer the Crab, who lives underground in these regions.”

“‘The second Sign!’ cried Catweazle. ‘’Tis Taurus the Bull!’”

“The Bull was the Bull of Heaven to the Sumerians. It marked the spring equinox and the start of the new year. It's head has always been the Hyades, including Aldebaran.”

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