bulldog
IPA: bˈʊɫdɔg
noun
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
- (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
- (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
verb
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
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