Bull

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Bull may refer to:

• Uncastrated male cattle. This is the origin of most of the other meanings
• A male of various other animal species, including buffalo, elephant, whale. In English, the word "bull" alone is usually spoken to refer specifically to male cattle, with terms such as "bull elephant" disambiguating the term for other species. See also cow
• Bull market, a share-trading term
• Papal bull is a written communication from the Vatican, bearing the papal seal
• Fredrik Rosing Bull, a Norwegian engineer
• Gerald Bull, an engineer developing long range artillery
• Bullshit, a common English expletive
• Bull, in the British Army, is slang for drill and equipment-cleaning that the men consider to be excessive. This usage may derive from a type of Army issue boot polish that was said to look like cattle excrement, thus "bullshit".
• Bull, in the United States Navy and NOAA Corps, the name given to the senior-most Ensign (rank) on a ship or flight unit.
• Golden Bull, a kind of legal document in history
• Groupe Bull, a French computer company

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