bulldogs

Noun

bulldog (plural bulldogs)

1. A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
   1. The original form of this breed, the English bulldog.
2. A stubborn or determined person.
   • We need a lawyer who will fight for our case, a real bulldog.
3. A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
4. (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
   • […] and was confronted by a “bulldog,” a proctor's assistant in charge of discipline, who asked if he was a member of the university since he wasn't wearing a gown, and he was able to say that he wasn't, […]2019, Thomas Merton, Patrick F. O'Connell, Medieval Cistercian History (page lxxiii)
5. Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.

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