Definitions
a serious and ludicrous blunder
Word origin
From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
Used in a sentence
“Bulls are hoping the prosecutions draw a line under the sector's troubled past and will allow it to tap billions of dollars of cash from Wall Street.”
“You never waited until the train stopped to get off. The railroad bulls were waiting at the stops searching for freeloaders.”
“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Adult male bovine”4 letters
02“Male bovine”4 letters
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