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• an uncastrated male bovine animal.

• "bull calves"

• a bullseye.

• "aim for the bull!"

• a person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later.

• push or move powerfully or violently.

• "he bulled the motor cycle clear of the tunnel"

• (of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being on heat.

Origin: late Old English bula (recorded in place names), from Old Norse boli . Compare with bullock.

• a papal edict.

• "the Pope issued a bull of excommunication"

Origin: Middle English: from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla ‘bubble, rounded object’ (in medieval Latin ‘seal or sealed document’).

• stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense.

• "much of what he says is sheer bull"

Origin: early 17th century: of unknown origin.

• taking action hastily and without thought.
"I try not to analyse anything—I just go in like a bull at a gate"

• behaving recklessly and clumsily in a situation where one is likely to cause damage.
"he was rushing about like a bull in a china shop"

• deal decisively with a difficult or dangerous situation.
"she decided to take the bull by the horns and organize things for herself"

• extremely close or near (to).
"no one has come within a bull's roar of producing a work of such sweep and quality"