bulldog

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bulldog Definition

• (n) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
• (s) stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
• (v) attack viciously and ferociously
• (v) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo

bulldog Synonyms

• bulldog
• dogged
• dour
• English bulldog
• pertinacious
• tenacious
• unyielding