Usually means: Intimidates others through power misuse.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word bully:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bully: Merriam-Webster
  2. bully, bully, bully, bully, bully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bully, bully: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bully: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bully: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bully, bully: Wordnik
  7. bully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bully: Wiktionary
  9. bully: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bully: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bully: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bully, bully: Dictionary.com
  13. bully (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bully (band), Bully (bullying), Bully (disambiguation), Bully (film), Bully (mascot), Bully (song), Bully (video game), Bully, The Bully (SpongeBob SquarePants), The Bully: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bully: Rhymezone
  19. bully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bully: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bully: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bully: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bully (disambiguation), bully: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bully (bullying), Bully (disambiguation), The Bully, bully: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bully: Idioms

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

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Bully: Sports Definitions

(Note: See bullied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
noun:  A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
noun:  A hired thug.
noun:  A sex worker's minder.
noun:  (uncountable) Bully beef.
noun:  (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
noun:  The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
noun:  Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
noun:  (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
noun:  (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
noun:  (obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
noun:  (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
noun:  (mining) A miner's hammer.
verb:  (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
verb:  (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
adjective:  (US, slang, dated) Very good.
adjective:  (slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.

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