bulldoze

Meaning

  1. To destroy with a bulldozer.
  2. To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
  3. To push through forcefully.
  4. To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
  5. To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
  6. (slang) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Frequency

46k
Hyphenated as
bull‧doze
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbʊldoʊz/
Etymology

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull + dose.

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