I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bull bars
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bullbarred vehicles
bull market
bull pen
bull session
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an all-night bull session
bull terrier
John Bull
pit bull terrier
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together.
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Alligators are not particularly sociable animals, and big bull gators often will stake out their own ponds.
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And we don't just want the big bulls .
old
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In the red corner, Derby the 5 year old bull .
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He is high up in the hayloft when five of the men come in leading the old bull .
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Only three-year-\#old bulls are slaughtered, and the Pribilof population is now thought to approach two million.
red
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Fiskars Kitchen Devils polyethylene board with colour-coded symbols - red bull for raw meats, yellow joint for cooked meats and so on.
young
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Steer and heifer prices remained firm throughout the week, however, young bull prices weakened slightly.
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The other school is composed of young bull whales.
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Every two or three years the family organises a festival for branding the calves and castrating the young bulls .
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Teenage boys, like young bulls in a herd, often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength.
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He was a raw young bull , itching for more action and glamour in his life.
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Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
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calf
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I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf .
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Sucklers hit a high of £818 going to M Mackin for a Limousin heifer and bull calf .
market
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The effect is similar to a situation in which share prices rapidly increase - a bull market .
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They hear that there is a bull market to ride, and they do not care which direction the bull is headed.
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After the great bull market , he was sitting on a £13 million paper fortune.
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The average length of a bull market is 28 months, according to Ibbotson.
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Yet savers will still profit from the bull market as beneficiaries of the pension funds to which they sold their shares.
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This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.
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Spicer points out that the sector has thrived in a bull market but the advertising boom may be coming to an end.
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This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.
pit
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Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers.
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He could check it, he supposed, with the new super, a tough-talking veteran with a pit bull .
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High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.
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Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
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Statistically in San Francisco, pit bulls are over-represented in attacks on people, according to animal control officials.
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Animal advocates strongly oppose the practice of denying insurance to owners of pit bulls and Rottweilers.
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Do you own a pit bull ?
terrier
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Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers .
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Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done, the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child.
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These activities supported high-stakes gambling, for example, on the outcome of fights between selectively bred bull terriers .
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High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.
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Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.
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The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee.
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Their Staffordshire bull terrier Bodger was destroyed after the attack in their home at Lee-on-Solent, Portsmouth.
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It was a portrait of the white bull terrier , executed with incredible precision.
■ VERB
kill
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Livestock too present many dangers with one farmer being killed when his Simmental bull attacked him.
take
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And so, in true Arien fashion, she had decided to take the bull by the horns.
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Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a load of crap/bull etc
cock and bull story
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He gave me a cock and bull story about the glass being smashed by hailstones.
like a red rag to a bull
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Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
shoot the bull/breeze
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Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.
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Here I found four or five members slouched around a deal table shooting the breeze.
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Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.
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Unlike the other candidates, he is always ready to sit in the back of his bus shooting the breeze with reporters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I charged in like a bull .
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It didn't take Lowell long to realise that the bull hadn't unearthed any pieces of urn.
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Myrcan sympathy, like milk from a bull .
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Put another way, if Karelin were in Pamplona, the bulls would run away from him. 6.
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The bull was under the protection of a court order.
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With the right company, certainly the stock should hit new highs with the next bull market.
II. interjection
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bull ! You could have come if you really wanted to.