Meaning

4 senses
  1. A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

    Planierraupe, Bulldozer

    бульдо́зерbulʹdózer

    бульдо́зерbulʹdózer

  2. One who bulldozes.

  3. (historical, in the plural)A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.

  4. (broadly)A bully; an overbearing individual.

More definitions
  • large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground

Examples

12 sentences
  1. Tom knows how to drive a bulldozer.

  2. They are now leveling the road with a bulldozer.

    ruТеперь они выравнивают дорогу бульдозером. — odexed

  3. I also want a bulldozer.

  4. Oleg blocked the passage with a bulldozer.

  5. A bulldozer was used to level the lane.

    deEin Bulldozer wurde eingesetzt, um die Fahrbahn zu ebnen. — Tamy

Translations

9 languages
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Origin

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.

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Forms

plural: bulldozers
Singularbulldozer
Pluralbulldozers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
member of intimidating white US Southerners:regulator
Close in meaning
  • large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground:dozer

Word family

3 related words

See also

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