bully : Idioms & Phrases

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bully beef

  • noun beef cured or pickled in brine
    corned beef; corn beef.
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bully off

  • verb start a game by a face-off
    face off.
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bully pulpit

  • noun a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter
    • the American presidency is a bully pulpit
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bully tree

  • noun a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
    balata; Manilkara bidentata; balata tree; beefwood.
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Bul"ly tree`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
Webster 1913