Bulls and Bullfighting

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aficionado

an avid and informed devotee of bullflghting; now used of devotees of any sport, activity, or art.

bulldogging

Western U.S. the seizing of a calf or steer by the horns and throwing it off its feet by twisting the head. — bulldogger, n.

picador

a mounted bullfighter who jabs the bull between the shoulders with a lance to enrage it.

tauricide

1. the killing of a bull.
2. the killer of a bull.

taurobolium

a part of an ancient religious rite involving baptism in the blood of a sacrificed bull. Also tauroboly.

taurokathapsia

an ancient Cretan sport for both sexes involving grasping the horns of a bull and tumbling over him; bull-leaping.

tauromachy, tauromaquia

1. the art or technique of bullflghting.
2. a bullfight. — tauromachian, tauromachic, adj.

taurophobia

an abnormal fear of bulls.

Taurus

1. the bull, second of the zodiaeal eonstellations.
2. the bull, second of the astrological signs.

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