Definitions for bulldog

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bulldog bull·dog

Spelling: [boo l-dawg, -dog]

IPA: /ˈbʊlˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg/

Bulldog is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in bulldog (bdgllou).

Definitions for bulldog

noun

1. 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.
2. Informal. a stubbornly persistent person.
3. a short-barreled revolver of large caliber.
4. Metallurgy. slag from a puddling furnace.
5. an assistant to the proctor at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

adjective

1. like or characteristic of a bulldog or of a bulldog's jaws:

verb (used with object)

1. to attack in the manner of a bulldog.
2. Western U.S. to throw (a calf, steer, etc.) to the ground by seizing the horns and twisting the head.

Origin of bulldog

First recorded in 1490-1500; bull¹ + dog

Examples for bulldog

Bland, a thick-set man with the jaw of a bulldog, was eyeing him intently.

“Every time I turn on the TV, I see a bulldog in a commercial,” she said.

Farnol Greer, on the other hand, was as heavily moulded as a bulldog.

Like a bulldog picking up the scent of fresh meat and not quite sure where to find it, Biden tore up everything in sight.

"No, it was not," answered Gilman, all the bulldog in his nature coming to the surface.

He just wore Diablo down, hung to him like a bulldog, an' beat him out.

Spike the bulldog first appeared in Tom and Jerry cartoons in 1942.

One surprise: the English bulldog finally waddled into the top five, a ranking it had not received in 75 years.

But he thought he might bulldog the case for a while and find a wedge for a lawsuit.

He was of the bulldog breed that has made old England what it is.