BULL TERRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bull terrier mean? 

• BULL TERRIER (noun)
  The noun BULL TERRIER has 1 sense:

1. a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers

  Familiarity information: BULL TERRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULL TERRIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bull terrier; bullterrier

Hypernyms ("bull terrier" is a kind of...):

terrier (any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bull terrier"):

Staffordshire bull terrier; Staffordshire bullterrier (English breed of strong stocky dog having a broad skull and smooth coat)

American pit bull terrier; American Staffordshire terrier; pit bull terrier; Staffordshire terrier (American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat)

 Context examples 

The Miniature Bull Terrier is a bull terrier with a height of 10-14 inches and a weight up to 24-33 pounds.

(Miniature Bull Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

“He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)