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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbullet(“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), fromOld Frenchbullete, diminutive ofboule(“ball”). Later influenced byMiddle Frenchboulette andFrenchboulet.

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Noun

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bullet (countable anduncountable,pluralbullets)

  2. Aprojectile, usually of metal, shot from agun at high speed.
    Synonyms:(slang)cap,(slang)pill,(slang)slug
  3. (informal) An entireround of unfiredammunition for afirearm, including the projectile, thecartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
  4. Ammunition for asling orslingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene i:
      Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d / And cloſde in compaſſe of the killingbullet, / Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, / That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, / Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
  5. (typography) A printedsymbol in the form of a solid circle⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in alist.
    Synonym:bullet point
  6. (banking, finance) A large scheduledrepayment of theprincipal of aloan; aballoon payment.
  7. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
    John's not going to any of his top schools; he got abullet from the last of them yesterday.
  8. (slang) Oneyear ofprisontime.
    • 1986, James Ellroy,Suicide Hill:
      G.T.A. I got sentenced to abullet, did six months at fire camp and got a modification.
  9. (slang) Anace (theplaying card).
    • 1969, Robert L. Vann,The Competitor, volumes2-3, page135:
      The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—theBullet of Clubs!
  10. (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
    • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, inBBC‎[1]:
      Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering abullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
  11. (attributive)Veryfast(speedy).
  12. (chess, uncountable)Ellipsis ofbullet chess.
    • 2020 August 21, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen fights back from brink to overcome Nakamura in 38-game epic”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minutebullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly.
    • 2021 November 24, Tyler Cowen, “Chess Is an Esport Now. Get Used to It.”, inThe Washington Post‎[3]:
      Carlsen also has been engaging in online marathons of "bullet chess," exactly the kind of attention-disrupting, energy-draining stunt contenders are supposed to avoid. In abullet game, each player has only one minute for all the moves. The pace is so rapid the games are hard to watch, much less play.
    • 2022 July 27, Srinivasa Ramanujam, “'Feels like a festival': Praggnanandhaa on Chess Olympiad and meeting Rajinikanth”, inThe Hindu‎[4]:
      Even today, when they're home, the siblings indulge in a friendly game or two. "We love playingbullet games. It's a format where we make really quick moves," he says, pausing to add, "Think of it like a super over in cricket."
  13. (fishing) Aplumb orsinker.
  14. (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game ofroad bowling.
  15. (Australia) A roughly bullet-shapedsweet consisting of acylinder ofliquorice covered inchocolate.
  16. (obsolete) A smallball.
    • 1881,Robert Louis Stevenson,Virginibus Puerisque:
      Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarmbullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?
  17. (obsolete) Acannonball.
    • 1592,John Stow,The Annales of England:
      A ship before Greenwich[…] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with abullet of stone.
  18. (obsolete) Thefetlock of ahorse.
  19. (Canada,US, horse racing) The bestworkouttime at atrack on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
  20. A notation used onpop musiccharts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
    • 1975, Pete Wingfield, “Eighteen with a Bullet”:
      I'm eighteen with abullet / Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it /[…] / I'm high on the chart / I'm tip for the top
    • 2013, Hallee Bridgeman,A Melody for James:
      Her third release hit number one in record time — “number one with abullet” as they said in the industry — and after that, there seemed to be no stopping her.
  21. Ellipsis ofbullet vibrator.
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Hyponyms ofbullet (etymology 1 sense 1)
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Terms derived frombullet (noun)
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projectile
ammunition for a sling
typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
informal: round of unfired ammunition
banking: large scheduled payment
rejection letter

Verb

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bullet (third-person singular simple presentbullets,present participlebulleting,simple past and past participlebulleted)

  1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
    • 2000,Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster, Inc, page x:
      For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we havebulleted "World Wide Web"
    • 2004, Richard P. Pohanish,HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security, page x:
      The author hasbulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
    • 2008, Deanna Davis,The law of attraction in action, page42:
      I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and hadbulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area
  2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
    Their debut started slow, butbulleted to number six in its fourth week.
    • 2024,Hisham Matar,My Friends, Random House (2025), page 7:
      After a little pause, during which the trainbulleted through the tunnel, he said, “Poor man,” referring to his late father.
  3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
    Hebulleted a header for his first score of the season.
  4. (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
    • 2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics):
      They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up andbullet him
  5. (slang, transitive) Tofire from a job; todismiss.
    • 2012, Iain King, John Hartson,John Hartson's Celtic Dream Team:
      Mowbray never had that luxury, he wasbulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.

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Etymology 2

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    Frombull +‎-et.

    Noun

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    bullet (pluralbullets)(rare)

    1. Ayoung orlittlebull; amalecalf.
      • 1886,Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page110:
        —Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they arebullets."
      • 1937,Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page17:
        “I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.
      • 1959, C. B. Kitchens,X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:
        YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets[sic] take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets andbullets and baking a bale of hay.
      • 2013 November 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, inrec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>:
        > Correct. No other animals drink cow's milk but cows! / Cows drink milk? Maybe their little cowlets andbullets (future steerlets) do; but I have yet to see a cow drink milk. Other animals love cow milk. My dog, the barn cats up the road.
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    young or little bull—seebullock

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishbullet, fromMiddle French[Term?].

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    • IPA(key): /bulət/,[ˈb̥uləd̥]

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    bullet (plural indefinitebullets,no definite forms)

    1. (typography)bullet (a printed symbol, e.g. •, used for marking items in a list)[from 1994]

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    bullet

    1. third-personsingularpresentactivesubjunctive ofbullō

    Northern Sami

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    • (Kautokeino)IPA(key): /ˈpuːlleh(t)/

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    būllet

    1. inflection ofbuollit:
      1. third-personpluralpresentindicative
      2. second-personsingularpastindicative
      3. second-personpluralimperative
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