bull fiddle

noun

Informal.

1. double bass.

Other Word Forms

• bull fiddler noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bull fiddle¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

“I’ll have to play my bull fiddle for you when we meet again.”

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“Back then a band would be a saxophone, a trumpet, a bull fiddle, that kind of thing.“

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He chose to pass that remark, "I've heard of you, too," he said, that last word sounding like the low string on a bull fiddle.

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He works the trombone in the streets and the bull fiddle under cover.

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He was startled by a hoarse boom, as if someone had scraped the strings of an amplified bull fiddle.

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