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Bullet
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- 1 A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. countable, uncountable
- 2 A young or little bull; a male calf. rare
"—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.""
- 3 (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity wordnet
- 4 An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc. countable, informal, uncountable
- 5 a projectile that is fired from a gun wordnet
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- 6 Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use. countable, uncountable
"Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not."
- 7 a high-speed passenger train wordnet
- 8 A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list. countable, uncountable
- 9 A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment. countable, uncountable
- 10 A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition. countable, uncountable
"John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday."
- 11 One year of prison time. countable, slang, uncountable
"G.T.A. I got sentenced to a bullet, did six months at fire camp and got a modification."
- 12 An ace (the playing card). countable, slang, uncountable
"The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, The doughboy, awaiting the battle, May possibly know how I felt While the long years dragged by as the dealer As slow as the slowest of dubs, Stuck out the last helping of tickets 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!"
- 13 Anything that is projected extremely fast. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air."
- 14 Very fast (speedy). attributive, countable, uncountable
"bullet train; bullet chess"
- 15 Ellipsis of bullet chess. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
"Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minute bullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly."
- 16 A plumb or sinker. countable, uncountable
- 17 The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling. Ireland, countable, uncountable
- 18 A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate. Australia, countable, uncountable
- 19 A small ball. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?"
- 20 A cannonball. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone."
- 21 The fetlock of a horse. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 22 The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet. Canada, US, countable, uncountable
- 23 A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings. countable, uncountable
"I'm eighteen with a bullet Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it […] I'm high on the chart I'm tip for the top"
- 1 To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it. informal, transitive
"For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web""
- 2 To speed, like a bullet. informal, intransitive
"Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week."
- 3 To make a shot, especially with great speed. informal, transitive
"He bulleted a header for his first score of the season."
- 4 To inflict bullet shots upon. rare, slang, transitive
"They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him"
- 5 To fire from a job; to dismiss. slang, transitive
"Mowbray never had that luxury, he was bulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season."
Etymology
From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
From bull + -et.
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