Plural of bulldog

regular plural

The plural of bulldog is bulldogs.

Forms of bulldog

"These up-State farmers and I love each other like a couple of strange bulldogs.1918, Holworthy Hall, The Man Nobody Knew. From the entry like strange bulldogs
Students were frequently caught by the proctors and bulldogs for breaking gates ( i.e. going absent without leave ) .2011, Peter Linehan, St John's College, Cambridge: A History, page 304. From the entry break gates
Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy.2012, Marieke Hardy, Michaela McGuire, Sincerely: Women of Letters. From the entry hairless
Mary's the cry of 'The proggins (proctor) is coming' was raised, and I saw him with the bulldogs about thirty yards in front of us.1992, Malcolm Graham, Images of Victorian Oxford, page 80. From the entry proggins
These three got along like strange bulldogs, due to the fact that they were all captains and no privates when the three of them were together.1925, The First Yale Unit: A Story of Naval Aviation, 1916-1919. From the entry like strange bulldogs

noun 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.
noun The original form of this breed, the English bulldog.
noun A stubborn or determined person.

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