Usually means: Personification of England or Britain.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word John Bull:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Bull: Merriam-Webster
  2. John Bull: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. John Bull: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. John Bull: Collins English Dictionary
  5. John Bull: Vocabulary.com
  6. John Bull: Wordnik
  7. John Bull, John bull: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. John Bull: Wiktionary
  9. John Bull: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. John Bull: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. John Bull, bull, john: Dictionary.com
  12. John Bull: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. John Bull (composer), John Bull (congressman), John Bull (disambiguation), John Bull (general), John Bull (gunman), John Bull (horse), John Bull (locomotive), John Bull (magazine), John Bull, John bull: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. John bull: Rhymezone
  15. John Bull: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. john bull: FreeDictionary.org
  17. john bull: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Bull, John, John Bull: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. john bull: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. John Bull: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Bull: Artist Search
  2. Bull, John: Classical Composers Database

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bull, John, John Bull: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Bull: A Word A Day
  2. John Bull: Idioms
  3. John Bull: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Bull, John Bull, John Bull, John Bull: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. John Bull: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See john_bullish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (John Bull)

noun:  A personification of England.
noun:  (by extension) Something or someone that is stereotypically English.

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