bull

Definition

  • noun: an adult male animal of the ox and cow family
  • noun: a male bovine
  • verb: to advance forcefully
  • often used before another noun

Examples

  • She decided to 'take the bull by the horns' and try to solve the problem without any further delay.

  • As a politician, he was 'a bull in a china shop' and often had to apologize for his rough speech.

  • Her comments about our problems 'hit the bull's-eye'. [=her comments were exactly correct]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and a female, and I've got my rights. We got no time for this. You can bull the others, but not me. I've fought whiskey, and I've fought gambling... We got no time for this. (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid