bulldoze

Meaning

Verb

  • To destroy with a bulldozer.
  • To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
  • To push through forcefully.
  • To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
  • To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
  • To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Origin

  • From earlier bulldose, equivalent to bull + dose.

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