bull vs cracker

bull

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie. 

  • Any adult male bovine. 

  • Beef. 

  • Specifically, one that is uncastrated. 

  • An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals. 

  • A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both. 

  • An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices. 

  • A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. 

  • An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. 

  • A lie. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An elderly lesbian. 

  • A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. 

  • A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope. 

  • A large, strong man. 

  • Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard. 

  • A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”) 

verb
  • To lie, to tell untruths. 

  • To polish boots to a high shine. 

  • To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull. 

  • To mate with (a cow or heifer). 

  • To endeavour to raise prices in. 

  • To force oneself (in a particular direction). 

  • To mock; to cheat. 

  • To endeavour to raise the market price of. 

adj
  • Large and strong, like a bull. 

  • Adult male. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear). 

cracker

noun
  • A police officer. 

  • A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers). 

  • An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn). 

  • Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker 

  • A Christmas cracker. 

  • A firecracker. 

  • A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). 

  • One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions. 

  • A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. 

  • A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck. 

  • A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack). 

  • An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person. 

  • The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound. 

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