The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulger \Bul"ger\, n. [From Bulge.] (Golf) A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context golf English) A driver or a brassy with a convex face. 2 (context idiomatic electronics English) A capacitor with a bulging top.
Wikipedia
Bulger may refer to:
People:
- Daniel Delany Bulger (1865–1930), Irish athlete
- James Bulger (1990–1993), English boy abducted, tortured, and murdered by two ten-year-old boys
- Lawrence Bulger (1870–1928), Irish rugby union player, athlete and doctor
- Marc Bulger (born 1977), former American football quarterback
- Michael Joseph Bulger (1867–1938), Irish rugby player, doctor, and Olympic official
- Peggy Bulger, folklorist and the director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
- Whitey Bulger (born James Joseph Bulger, Jr., 1929), former organized crime figure from Boston, Massachusetts (brother of William M. Bulger)
- William M. Bulger (born 1934), retired American politician, lawyer, and educator (brother of Whitey Bulger)
Places:
- Bulger, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Bulger, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States
- Bulgër, a village in the administrative unit of Rubik, Albania
Usage examples of "bulger".
Equip each of them with a bulger, permalloy semi-rigid model, and check the heating units.
In the hall, he again passed Bulger, striding back, his face red and splotchy, thumbs hooked in his belt loops, lips and belly thrust forward aggressively, keys swaying and jingling.
But first, he'd better get his ass out of there before Bulger returned, disgruntled, spoiling for an argument.
They fought among themselves for a time, as people in a black mood do, then reunited and called themselves the Bulgers.
But it has taken one particular murder to crystalise the country's fears, encapsulate the concern and encourage people to ask aloud what kind of nation are we becoming: the brutal abduction of two-year-old James Bulger, who was led off by two other children.