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bulger

[ buhl-jer ]

noun

, Golf.
  1. a wood having a convex face, now rarely used.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bulger1

First recorded in 1825–35; bulge + -er 1

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Example Sentences

Billy Bulger went in front of 10 grand juries and nothing stuck.

Whitey Bulger, the infamous Boston mobster, disappeared off the face of the earth and managed to stay hidden for 16 years.

Bulger was ultimately discovered when a neighbor recognized pictures of his companion, Barbara Greig, on a television show.

This decision turned the trial of Whitey Bulger into one of the most lopsided cases in the history of jurisprudence.

Bulger declared the trial a “sham” and exercised his right to not testify.

The first of them was Captain Bulger, an unfortunate martinet, though a man of good conscience and high ideals.

He longed tragically to go with Bulger and meet a couple of swell dames, but he knew how it would be.

Bulger, considered in relation to the sex not his own, was what he himself would have termed "a smooth little piece of work."

But he did confide to his successor that if he, Bulger, ever found Breede under his heel, Breede could expect no mercy.

Bulger consumed another high-ball, filled his cigarette case, and the two stood a moment on Broadway.

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