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