Usually means: Violent day, civil rights clash.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bloody Sunday: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Bloody Sunday: Wiktionary
  3. Bloody Sunday (Bolzano), Bloody Sunday (Derry), Bloody Sunday (Selma), Bloody Sunday (TV film), Bloody Sunday (disambiguation), Bloody Sunday (film), Bloody Sunday, Bloody sunday (selma), Bloody sunday: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. bloody sunday: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Bloody Sunday: Encyclopedia

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  1. bloody sunday: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bloody Sunday)

noun:  (historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
noun:  (historical, US) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
noun:  (historical, British, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
noun:  (historical) Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.

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