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▸ noun: A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
▸ noun: A hired thug.
▸ noun: A sex worker's minder.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Bully beef.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
▸ noun: The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
▸ noun: Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
▸ noun: (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
▸ noun: (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
▸ noun: (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
▸ noun: (mining) A miner's hammer.
▸ verb: (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
▸ verb: (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
▸ adjective: (US, slang) Very good.
▸ adjective: (slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
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