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bull noun- nonsense US, 1902
An abbreviation of BULLSHIT- [W]e cook weenies, drink Tokay–I make love to big Swedish student girl Edeltrude. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 384, 8 November 1952
- No use going crook at the Yanks. They’re a poor, silly, ignorant mob of bastards, who’ve been fed on bull from the day they were born. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 159, 1954
- Cut the bull. An’ don’t call me sir. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 15, 1957
- Not the bull they teach you in Sunday school. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 327, 1963
- “So don’t give me a lot of bull. Give me the truth.” — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 3, 1963
- When you spout that old bull I know you’re going to give me good advice. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 125, 1967
- You don’t bung on bull like a lot of these blokes you see around tha place these days. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 78, 1969
- “We were just unlucky to strike that one in a thousand”. “Bloody bull, Mike and you know it.’ — Bettina Arndt, The Australian Way of Sex, p. 86, 1985
- a police officer, especially a detective; a prison guard US, 1893
- It’s better you tell me than have the bulls drag you to the station. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 43, 1947
- Now I know the bulls of the Fifth Street station are really after me. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 71, 1955
- There were two narcotic bulls on my back. — Jack Gerber, The Connection, p. 69, 1957
- Madam alla time sayin how them bulls extorshun her. — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 175, 1961
- “Rucker!” a bull’s voice calls. “I comin.” — Ken Kesey, Last Whole Earth Catalog, p. 234, 1971
- Big Jeff, as usual, was the first bull through the door. Imagine, Augie Robles, cornered, with four, count ’em, four pistols, waiting on you. SHee-it. The bulls killed Augie that night[.] — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 17, 1972
- We spoke generally of a couple mutual acquaintances, complained a bit about how hot the streets are these days with bulls everywhere[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 161, 1980
- “The British Columbia Provincials are a hopeless gang of men,” he said. Canadian bulls never bothered me for a minute. — George Bowering, Caprice, p. 125, 1987
- The bulls are across the street. They’re watching everything we do. — Goodfellas, 1990
- an aggressive, mannish lesbian US, 1967
- Some bull pawing over her. — Joe Houston, The Gay Flesh, p. 108, 1965
- Known variously as a bull, a stomper, a bad butch, a hard dresser, a truck driver, a diesel dyke, a bull dagger and a half dozen other soubriquets, she is the one who, according to most homosexual girls, gives lesbians a bad name. — Ruth Allison, Lesbianism, p. 125, 1967
- in the sexual subculture of cuckoldry, the dominant male sex partner US
- 42 yr old Master Bull with over 7” long and over 2.5” thick looking to plow your slut wife while you watch and then make you clean up the mess. — alt.personals, 4 June 1999
- This person is referred to as the bull, stud or the alpha male. — www.cuckoldfantasies.com, 2006
- Traveling Bull for Hotwives and Cuckold Couples. — www.hotwivesonline.com, 22 October 2007
- — Angela Lewis, My Other Self, p. 307, 2010
- in prison, a person who can withstand physical hardship US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 199, 1990
- a wharf labourer unfairly favoured for employment AUSTRALIA, 1957
- an aggressive poker bettor US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 14, 1988
- in the circus, an elephant, male or female US, 1921
- [E]lephants are called “bulls“ or “pigs”. — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 32, 1953
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 21, 1980
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 36, 1981
- a battle tank US
- Get that bull off us, over! — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 119, 1976
- in a deck of playing cards, an ace US
- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 182, 1963
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