Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a neck like that of a bull.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a short, thick and muscular neck like that of a bull.

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  • adjective Having a short and thick neck, like that of a bull.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a thick short powerful neck

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Examples

  • There is a block-shaped, bull-necked void at its heart, an absence of that sense that all is as it should be in a Sky Sports world where everything is top, top, top, top, top.

    Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011

  • He comes of our common stock, is as bull-necked as I ever dared be, and as wild a fanatic the one way as you are the other.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • Fortunately India had another screen-ready leading man in MS Dhoni, whose bull-necked match-winning innings chimed perfectly with the ambience.

    India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011

  • He was heavy - jawed, bull-necked, and the short, straight hair of the head seemed to her frightened eyes the stiff bristles on a hog's back.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • Several perched on the posts, watching the woods, and one of them—a scarred bull-necked tom—lay a dead mouse on my boot when I stopped to undo the lock and chain.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Several perched on the posts, watching the woods, and one of them—a scarred bull-necked tom—lay a dead mouse on my boot when I stopped to undo the lock and chain.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • I looked over the edge of the roof to the road in front of the hotel and was startled to see three bull-necked white men with the manner, wardrobe, sunglasses, and gum-chewing demeanor of American undercover cops.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Despite the difference in rank, Jake and the sergeant had formed a strong friendship, probably because Jake had been the only man to put the bull-necked Tatro on his back when the men tried a little bare-knuckle boxing.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Several perched on the posts, watching the woods, and one of them—a scarred bull-necked tom—lay a dead mouse on my boot when I stopped to undo the lock and chain.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Despite the difference in rank, Jake and the sergeant had formed a strong friendship, probably because Jake had been the only man to put the bull-necked Tatro on his back when the men tried a little bare-knuckle boxing.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

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