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bullterrier

  • a variation of bull terrier.
    bull terrier
    noun
    one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a white, brindled, or tan and white coat, produced by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.

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One needs to look twice before realizing that the posts and bridge planks that support the sinister bullterrier in Helm's Night Window, 1986, are real inlaid wood and not trompe-l'oeil painting.

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Short, stocky and muscular, the pit bullterrier has a reputation for viciousness, so much so that Adventurer-Author Jack London once characterized it as "clinging death."

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Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age.

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He enjoys walking his Rottweiler and bullterrier and riding his BMW and Harley-Davidson motorcycles over the hilly terrain around Zug.

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The name pit bull loosely applies to a crossbred strain of the American Staffordshire terrier and the American pit bullterrier as well as to other varieties.

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