Clues for the word "BULL"
We've had 108 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 152 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 17, 2025.
Definition of bull
- n. - The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
- n. - One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
- n. - Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- n. - A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
- n. - One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
- a. - Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
- v. i. - To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- v. t. - To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
- v. i. - A seal. See Bulla.
- v. i. - A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
- v. i. - A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
Referring Clues
- Optimist, of sorts
- Certain charger
- Wall Street optimist
- Torero's foe
- Kind of market
- Headstrong one
- Zodiac symbol
- China shop charger?
- Proverbial china shop problem
- "Hogwash!"
- China shop blunderer
- Market optimist
- Male whale
- Hogwash
- Kind of snake or moose
- Cape charger
- Picador's target
- Bear's counterpart
- Hooey
- Horn or pen lead-in
- Certain optimist
- Toreador's opponent
- Calf's dad
- It may be mechanical in a bar
- Unwanted china shop visitor?
- Taurus
- China hazard, proverbially
- Stock-market optimist
- Sacred seal
- Michael Jordan, once
- Bronze animal in New York's financial district
- China-shop menace
- Nonsense
- Part of a stock exchange?
- Pen pa?
- Cow's mate
- Kind of Ox
- Matador's foe
- Corrida critter
- Calf's papa
- Matador charger
- Zodiac animal
- Chicago athlete
- Male moose
- Unpopular animal in a china shop?
- Male elephant
- Rodeo beast
- China shop destroyer
- New York Stock Exchange symbol
- Bailiff on "Night Court"
- Male bovine
- Zodiac beast
- Calf father
- Wall street beast
- Animal in a Wall Street sculpture
- Charger in the ring
- Symbol of an "up" market, and what can precede the last parts of 17-, 39- and 62-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Metaphorical china shop culprit
- China shop wrecker, proverbially
- Toro
- Pit ___ (type of dog)
- Matador's opponent
- Male cow
- Chicago basketball player
- He-cow
- Positive Wall Street figure
- Papal edict - nonsense
- Centre of a target
- See 19
- Nonsense creature
- One with an eye on the target
- Excessive discipline for male elephant
- Animal hard to hit?
- Cow lacking male chromosome? On the contrary!
- Male bovine - target's centre
- Arena where speculator meets syndicate
- Here you'll get 50 cobblers
- Chicago baller
- Nonsense letter from buyer
- Bovine charger?
- Sign of too much discipline
- Target of thirsty Archers? Nonsense!
- See 1
- Kind of pen?
- 2 at the centre
- Male charging fifty points for this?
- Kind of speculator that's on target
- Optimistic beast?
- Animal's hogwash
- Sign in the centre
- Bovine mammal
- Subject of a famed Financial District statue
- Michael Jordan, for 13 seasons
- Ferdinand of kid-lit, e.g.
- Ram follower
- "I don't believe you!"
- One advocating buying
- Calf's father
- Taurus symbol
- Certain team member in Chicago
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- Chicago NBA player
- Animal hard to hit?
- John's a very good shot
- "No way that's true"
- Papal issue
- "Raging ___"
- Welcome figure on Wall Street, unwelcome figure in a china shop
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 17, 2025
- Daily American - January 23, 2025
- USA Today - October 20, 2024
- Daily American - August 18, 2024
- LA Times - June 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 12, 2024
- Daily American - March 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2024
- New York Times - February 02, 2024
- Daily American - January 22, 2024
- New York Times - January 14, 2024
- USA Today - December 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 22, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 09, 2023
- Daily American - January 23, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 19, 2022
- Family Time - October 17, 2022
- Daily American - August 18, 2022
- New York Times - June 19, 2022
- Daily American - January 22, 2018
- Netword - January 21, 2018
- USA Today - December 15, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - November 02, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 07, 2017
- LA Times - June 28, 2017
- USA Today - April 12, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 04, 2017
- And in 122 more crossword puzzles...