English Dictionary

bullet

/ˈbʊl.ɪt/

noun

A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

The bullet pierced through the target with incredible speed.

意味（1）

A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

意味（2）

(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

意味（3）

Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d

And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,

Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,

That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.

意味（4）

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

意味（5）

(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

意味（6）

A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

意味（7）

(slang) One year of prison time.

意味（8）

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

The miser, a-seeking lost gelt,

The doughboy, awaiting the battle,

May possibly know how I felt

While the long years dragged by as the dealer

As slow as the slowest of dubs,

Stuck out the last helping of tickets

The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, The doughboy, awaiting the battle, May possibly know how I felt While the long years dragged by as the dealer As slow as the slowest of dubs, Stuck out the last helping of tickets 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

意味（9）

(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.

Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.

意味（10）

(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

bullet train; bullet chess

意味（11）

(chess, Internet) chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)

Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minute bullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly.

意味（12）

(fishing) A plumb or sinker.

意味（13）

(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.

意味（14）

(Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.

意味（15）

(obsolete) A small ball.

Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?

意味（16）

(obsolete) A cannonball.

A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.

意味（17）

(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.

意味（18）

A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.

I'm eighteen with a bullet

Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it

[…]

I'm high on the chart

I'm eighteen with a bullet Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it […] I'm high on the chart I'm tip for the top