early 14c., originally "put through a strainer," from O.Fr. coillir "collect, gather, select," from L. colligere "gather together," originally "choose, select" (see collect).
n. a socially unacceptable person. : This place is so filled with culls! Let's split.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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The problem of how to cull observations honestly is a constant preoccupation of statisticians and methodologists.
It's one of the jobs of a skilled scientific illustrator to cull the visual chaff and focus attention on the subject at hand.
Bot aficionados scour poker manuals and online forums to cull the best strategies.
They're used as a convenient form of biological control, to cull insect pests without having to resort to chemical agents.
Cull the local stats, add a bit of police commentary and be done with it.
The idea is to cull fuel-thirsty, polluting drivetrains.
Most quake researchers cull the whale's booming calls from their seafloor recordings.
Sale of cull cows is a significant source of income for ranchers.
Others in the community cull the pictures into sets.
Properly managing and marketing cull cows may mean the difference between a profit and a loss for a year.