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Noun bull has 11 senses

bull - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
--₁ is a kind of cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus
--₁ has part: horn
--₁ has particulars: bullock
bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson - a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
--₂ is a kind of man, adult male
bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
--₃ is a kind of bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash

Derived form: verb bull₃
bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
--₄ is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
--₅ is a kind of policeman, police officer, officer
bull - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
--₆ is a kind of investor
Antonyms: bear

Derived forms: verb bull₂, verb bull₄
Taurus, Bull - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
--₇ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull - the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
--₈ is a kind of sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
bull's eye, bull - the center of a target
--₉ is a kind of center, centre, midpoint
--₉ is a part of target, mark
bull, papal bull - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
--₁₀ is a kind of decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
bull - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
--₁₁ is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

Verb bull has 4 senses

bull, bull through - push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
--₁ is one way to push, bear on
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
--₂ is one way to speculate, job

Derived form: noun bull₆
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
bullshit, bull, fake - talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
--₃ is one way to feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble

Derived form: noun bull₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
bull - advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
--₄ is one way to rise, go up, climb

Derived form: noun bull₆
Sample sentence:
Something ----s