bullet
nounEtymology
From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
- derived from bullete
Definitions
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the…
An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d / And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, / Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, / That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, / Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
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A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan
A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.
One year of prison time.
- G.T.A. I got sentenced to a bullet, did six months at fire camp and got a modification.
An ace (the playing card).
Anything that is projected extremely fast.
Very fast (speedy).
- bullet train
- bullet chess
Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minute bullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly.
- Even today, when they're home, the siblings indulge in a friendly game or two. "We love playing bullet games. It's a format where we make really quick moves," he says, pausing to add, "Think of it like a super over in cricket."
A plumb or sinker.
The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
A small ball.
A cannonball.
- A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.
The fetlock of a horse.
The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally…
The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- I'm eighteen with a bullet / Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it / […] / I'm high on the chart / I'm tip for the top
- Her third release hit number one in record time — “number one with a bullet” as they said in the industry — and after that, there seemed to be no stopping her.
Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
- For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"
- The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
- I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area
To speed, like a bullet.
- Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
- After a little pause, during which the train bulleted through the tunnel, he said, “Poor man,” referring to his late father.
To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.
To inflict bullet shots upon.
- They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
To fire from a job
To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- Mowbray never had that luxury, he was bulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.
A young or little bull
A young or little bull; a male calf.
The neighborhood
- neighborblank bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighborbrass-tipped bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighbordouble-action bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighbordumdum bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighbordum-dum bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighbordum dum bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighborrubber bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighborrubber-tipped bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
- neighborsilver bulletHyponyms of bullet (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
Derived
antibullet, bite the bullet, bullet ant, bullet ballot, bullet bra, bullet catch, bullet chess, bullet climb, bullet fee, bulletfest, bullet graph, bullet-head, bullet-headed, bullet hell, bullethole, bullet hole, bulletin, bulletize, bullet journal, bullet journaling, bulletless, bulletlike, bullet list, bullet loan, bulletmaker, bulletmaking, bullet money, Bulletmore, bullet-nose, bullet payment, bullet point, bullet-pointed, bulletproof, bullet-proof, bullet-screen game, bullet-shooting crossbow, bullet sponge, bullet time, bullet trade, bullet train · +33 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bullet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at bullet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at bullet
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA