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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bull terrier
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.
▪ High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.
▪ It was a portrait of the white bull terrier, executed with incredible precision.
▪ The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee.
▪ Their Staffordshire bull terrier Bodger was destroyed after the attack in their home at Lee-on-Solent, Portsmouth.
▪ Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done, the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bull terrier

Bull terrier \Bull" ter`ri*er\, bullterrier \bull"ter`rier\(b[.u]l" t[e^]r`r[i^]*[~e]r). (Zo["o]l.) A breed of short-haired terrier dogs originated in England by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.

WordNet
bull terrier

n. a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers [syn: bullterrier]

Wikipedia
Bull Terrier

The Bull Terrier is a breed of dog in the terrier family. There is also a miniature version of this breed which is officially known as the Miniature Bull Terrier.

Bull Terrier (Miniature)

The Bull Terrier (Miniature) is a breed with origins in the extinct English White Terrier, the Dalmatian and the Bulldog. The first existence is documented 1872 in The Dogs of British Island.

Usage examples of "bull terrier".

He was heavy and low in silhouette, Staffordshire bull terrier blood carefully crossed with mastiff, and his coat was coarse and brindled gold on black.

We were sitting out on the patio feeding Big Top, his bull terrier, sour-cream-and-chive potato chips.

I regained consciousness to find that I was being sniffed in what can only be described as a searching manner by a large white dog with pink eyes -- a bull terrier, I should judge.

I should get a dog, he thought, remembering his own bull terrier at home.

Ferdie took off his shirt to reveal a suntanned chest, solid as a bull terrier's.

Moresby was a thickset, aggressive little man who showed little interest in Anduaga's more sensitive feelings, and ploughed through the planned arrangements with the stubbornness of a bull terrier.