Usually means: Projectile fired from a gun.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bullet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bullet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bullet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bullet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bullet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bullet, bullet: Wordnik
  7. bullet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bullet: Wiktionary
  9. bullet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bullet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bullet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bullet, bullet: Dictionary.com
  13. bullet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bullet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Bullet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bullet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bullet: Rhymezone
  19. bullet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bullet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bullet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bullet: Free Dictionary
  23. bullet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bullet: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. bullet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bullet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bullet: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Bullet: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Bullet: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bullet: Netlingo
  2. bullet: CCI Computer
  3. bullet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bullet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BULLET: Acronym Finder
  2. bullet: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bullet: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. The BULLET, bullet: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Bullet: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bullet: Glossary of Insulator Terms

(Note: See bulleted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
noun:  (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
noun:  Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
noun:  (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
noun:  (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
noun:  A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
noun:  (slang) One year of prison time.
noun:  (slang) An ace (the playing card).
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
noun:  (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
noun:  (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
noun:  (Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
noun:  (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
noun:  (obsolete) A small ball.
noun:  (obsolete) A cannonball.
noun:  (obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
noun:  A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
verb:  (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
noun:  A young or little bull; a male calf.
noun:  (chess, uncountable) Short for bullet chess. [(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting one minute (or occasionally slightly more) to make their moves.]

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