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Bullpup
A bullpup firearm is one whose action and magazine sit behind the trigger, shortening the weapon without cutting barrel length; the Steyr AUG was the first adopted.
Bulls (rugby union)
Bulls (Vodacom Bulls), Pretoria rugby union franchise from the 1938 Northern Transvaal union; Blue Bulls domestically; 24 Currie Cup titles, Super Rugby titles 2007, 2009, 2010, 2020; URC finalists 2022-2026; home Loftus Versfeld.
Bullsdown Camp
Bullsdown Camp, an Iron Age multivallate hillfort at Bramley, Hampshire, near the Loddon and Bow Brook confluence; unexcavated scheduled monument 1001944, surveyed 1915 and 2017.
Bullseye (British game show)
Bullseye, the British ITV darts-and-quiz game show created by Andrew Wood and Norman Vaughan (1981-1995), hosted by Jim Bowen with Tony Green; thrower-and-knower pairs, IBA £6,000 prize cap, revivals on Challenge (2006) and ITV with Freddie Flintoff from 2024.
Bullseye (Marvel Comics)
Bullseye (Lester; Benjamin Poindexter in TV continuity), Marvel Comics assassin and Daredevil enemy, debuted in Daredevil #131 (March 1976) by Marv Wolfman and John Romita Sr.; kills with any thrown object, served Osborn's Dark Avengers as Hawkeye, and appears in Netflix Daredevil and Born Again.
Bullseye (target)
Bullseye: the center of a target, in archery the gold 10-ring of the World Archery five-color face (12.2 cm on the 122 cm recurve face, 8 cm on the 80 cm compound face), with an inner 6.1 cm X-ring for ties.
Bullshit
Bullshit: vulgar English word for nonsense or insincere talk, also a verb meaning to deceive with untruths; abbreviated BS. Etymology disputed (M-W 1908, Etymonline 1914); central to Frankfurt's On Bullshit and modern LLM research.
Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber, developed from his 2013 essay, on paid work so pointless that even workers cannot justify it, sorted into five types.
Bullsnake
Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer sayi, couleuvre gaufre de Say), a large non-venomous gophersnake subspecies from Alberta/Saskatchewan to northeastern Mexico; exceeds 2 m, hisses and vibrates its tail defensively, COSEWIC Special Concern since 2017.
Bullwhip
A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip with a short handle whose tapered thong lets the tip break the sound barrier, producing the crack used to startle cattle.
Bullwhip effect
The bullwhip effect, also called the Forrester effect, is the amplification of demand variability as orders move up a supply chain, from retailers to manufacturers.
Bully (2001 film)
Bully (2001) is Larry Clark's crime drama based on Jim Schutze's book about the real 1993 murder of Bobby Kent by Florida teenagers, starring Brad Renfro and Nick Stahl, released by Lions Gate in July 2001.
Bully (album)
Bully (BULLY) is Kanye West's (Ye's) twelfth solo studio album, released March 28, 2026 on YZY/gamma: 18 tracks, guests Travis Scott and CeeLo Green, an AI-use controversy, and a James Blake credits dispute.
Bully (video game)
Bully (Canis Canem Edit in PAL regions) is Rockstar Vancouver's 2006 PS2 open-world action-adventure set at Bullworth Academy, starring 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins; enhanced Scholarship Edition 2008, Anniversary Edition 2016, sequel cancelled 2009.
Bully Kutta
Bully Kutta, also called Pakistani or Indian Mastiff, is a large South Asian mastiff landrace from Punjab and Sindh used for guarding and hunting; not FCI-recognized, 130–170 lb, 8–10 year lifespan, name means heavily wrinkled dog.
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge is Jim Schutze's 1997 book on the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent by seven acquaintances near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bullying
Bullying is repeated aggressive behavior among youth involving a power imbalance, in person or online (cyberbullying). US school prevalence about 19%, with meta-analyses showing school anti-bullying programs reduce perpetration and victimization.
Bulma (ブルマ)
Bulma (ブルマ) is Akira Toriyama's scientist heroine of Dragon Ball, debuting in the 1984 manga; Goku's first companion, inventor of the Dragon Radar and time machine, wife of Vegeta, voiced by Tsuru, Hisakawa, and Nakahara.
Bulnesia
Bulnesia (lignumvitae, guayacán, palo santo) is a South American Zygophyllaceae genus described by Gay in 1846, native Peru to southern South America, with hard aromatic wood; B. sarmientoi is CITES Appendix II listed.
Bulo Bulo Gas Field
Bulo Bulo Gas Field is an onshore natural gas field in Cochabamba, Bolivia, operated by YPFB Chaco S.A., in production since 2001 and supplying a fertilizer plant.
Bulova
Bulova is an American watch brand founded in New York City in 1875 by Joseph Bulova and owned by Japan's Citizen Watch Group since 2008.
Buls Bay
Buls Bay (Bahía Buls) is a 4 km wide bay indenting the east side of Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 64°24′S 62°18′W; discovered and named by de Gerlache's 1897–99 Belgian expedition for Charles Buls, Burgomaster of Brussels.
Bulsae ATGM (불새)
Bulsae (불새) is a family of North Korean anti-tank guided missiles ranging from copies of Soviet designs to the fiber-optically guided Bulsae-4, first seen in Ukraine in 2024.
Bulsara (Mercurian crater)
Bulsara, also called the Freddie Mercury crater, is a 110-km-wide impact crater on Mercury in quadrangle H-14, adopted by the IAU on May 9, 2024 and named for Farrokh Bulsara, Queen's lead singer.
Bulu Kandela
Bulu Kandela (Buyu Kondorung) is a 2,870 m ultra-prominent mountain in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with 2,250 m prominence; first recorded ascent 27 October 2013 by Tadulako University students; distinct from the 855 m Buyu Kandela peak and from Katopasa.
Bulu Rantemario
Bulu Rantemario (Puncak Rantemario), summit of Gunung Latimojong in South Sulawesi, is Sulawesi's highest peak at 3,478 m (GPS about 3,440 m), a non-volcanic Seven Summits Indonesia highpoint climbed via the Karangan route.
Buluggin ibn Muhammad
Buluggin ibn Muhammad (بلكين بن محمد) was the fourth emir of the Hammadid dynasty in the Central Maghreb, reigning from 1055 to 1062. He took the throne by killing his cousin Muhsin ibn Qaid.
Buluggin ibn Ziri
Buluggin ibn Ziri (بلكين بن زيري) was a Sanhaja Berber chief who ruled Ifriqiya and the Maghreb as the Fatimid caliph's viceroy from 972 until his death in 984.
Bulugh al-Maram
Bulugh al-Maram min Adillat al-Ahkam (بلوغ المرام), translated as Achievement of the Goal, is a concise Sunni hadith collection on Islamic law compiled by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in 1425, widely memorized and used across the madhhabs.
Bulul
A bulul, also spelled bulol, is a carved wooden figure made by the Ifugao people of northern Luzon, Philippines, to guard rice granaries and assure good harvests.