• IPA: /ˈbʊl/

bull

1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
   1. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
2. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
3. Any adult male bovine.
4. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants and seals.
5. A large, strong man.
6. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
7. (slang) A policeman.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:

     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.

   1. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
8. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

     Half-a-crown is known as an smallcaps alderman, smallcaps half a bull, smallcaps half a tusheroon, and a smallcaps madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a smallcaps bull, or a smallcaps caroon, or a smallcaps cartwheel, or a smallcaps coachwheel, or a smallcaps thick-un, or a smallcaps tusheroon.

9. (UK) Clipping of bullseye#English|bullseye.
   1. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
10. (Philadelphia, slang) A man.
11. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit#English|bullshit.
12. A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
    • 2018 ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding ↗

      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.

13. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

• (slang: male person) guy, dude, bro, cat
• (slang: policeman) cop, copper, pig (derogatory), rozzer (British). See also Thesaurus:police officer

• (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices) bear

• French: taureau
• German: Bulle, Stier, Bummal (Bavarian)
• Italian: toro
• Portuguese: touro, toiro
• Russian: бык
• Spanish: toro

• French: mâle
• German: Bulle, Stier, Bummal (Bavarian)
• Italian: maschio
• Portuguese: macho
• Russian: саме́ц

• German: Bulle
• Portuguese: brutamontes
• Russian: бык

• German: Bulle
• Italian: toro, rialzista
• Russian: бык

• French: vaches (cows), bœufs (oxen) (Canada), chiens (dogs) (Canada), poulet (chicken), cognes (the beat)
• German: Bulle, Bullette (rare)
• Portuguese: tira
• Russian: мент

bull (not comparable)

1. Large and strong, like a bull.

• Synonyms: beefy, hunky, robust
• Antonyms: feeble, puny, weak

1. (of large mammals) adult male

   a bull elephant

   Synonyms: male

   Antonyms: female

2. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear)

   Antonyms: bear

3. stupid

   Synonyms: stupid

• German: Bullen-, bullen-
• Portuguese: grande

• French: mâle
• German: -bulle
• Italian: maschio
• Portuguese: macho

bull (bulls, present participle bulling; past and past participle bulled)

1. (intransitive) To force oneself (in a particular direction).

   He bulled his way in.

2. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
3. (intransitive) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
4. (UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.

   to bull railroad bonds

6. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.

   to bull the market

• Portuguese: forçar

• Spanish: mamar (slang)

bull (plural bulls)

1. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
2. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

• French: bulle
• German: Bulle
• Italian: bolla
• Portuguese: bula
• Russian: бу́лла
• Spanish: bula

• French: sceau
• German: Bulle
• Italian: sigillo
• Portuguese: selo

bull (bulls, present participle bulling; past and past participle bulled)

1. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull

bull (uncountable)

1. A lie.
2. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.

• (nonsense) See also Thesaurus:nonsense

• French: bêtises
• Portuguese: papo-furado, conversa fiada, besteira
• Spanish: bulo

bull (bulls, present participle bulling; past and past participle bulled)

1. to mock, cheat

bull (plural bulls)

1. (16th century, obsolete) A bubble.

1. Surname derived from the name of the animal.