noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
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"We need a lawyer who will fight for our case, a real bulldog."
"[…] and was confronted by a “bulldog,” a proctor's assistant in charge of discipline, who asked if he was a member of the university since he wasn't wearing a gown, and he was able to say that he wasn't, […]"
"The bulldog's just gone to press."
""... playing bulldog in the yard so I know you're fit enough to fight. Have you decided when you're coming back?”"
"So to give you some idea, we had scenarios where Yamato came steaming over the horizon and just bulldogged its way straight through the American battleline, and the whole thing was done and dusted inside of an hour, with 18-inch shells just blowing apart anything in sight."
"Don't come near the bulldog in case it bites."
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.
Common synonyms include: english bulldog, a man, achilles, adherent, adhesive, assertive.
Don't come near the bulldog in case it bites.
Pronounced /ˈbʊl.dɒɡ/.
From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.