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Synonyms of bull
(Entry 1 of 5)
- the head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions
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bull
noun (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of bull (Entry 2 of 5)
- the town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another
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- detective,
- dick,
- gumshoe,
- hawkshaw,
- inspector,
- investigator,
- plainclothesman,
- sherlock,
- sleuth,
- sleuthhound
- constabulary,
- heat
- [slang],
- man,
- police,
- police force
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bull
noun (3)Synonyms & Antonyms of bull (Entry 3 of 5)
- an interview filled with the usual bull about how seriously she takes the art of acting
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- bluster,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- cockalorum,
- fanfaronade,
- gas,
- gasconade,
- grandiloquence,
- hot air,
- magniloquence,
- rant,
- rodomontade
- (also rhodomontade)
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- a guy who's always trying to sell some sucker a line of bull
Synonyms for bull
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
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bull
verb (1)Synonyms of bull (Entry 4 of 5)
bull
verb (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of bull (Entry 5 of 5)
- no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market
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From the Editors at Merriam-Webster
The History of 'Bull' and 'Bear' Markets
The History of 'Bull' and 'Bear' Markets
It started with a proverb about selling bearskin
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“Bull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull. Accessed 17 May. 2022.
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The first known use of bull was before the 12th century
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