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Bull

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Bull S***

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PBR

Professional Bull Riding

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BB

Baby Bull

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Mechanical Bull

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RB

Raging Bull

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CBR

Championship Bull Riding

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PBR

Professional Bull Rider

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WB

What Bull

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JB

Jersey Bull

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PB

Papa Bull

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RBD

Red Bull Division

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OBT

Ohio Bull Test

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BD

Bull Dyke

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BP

Bull Plop

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BCI

Bull Composite Index

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BCI

Bull Composite Index

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BBB

Bull Baffles Brains

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SOB

Standard Operational Bull

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ABB

American Bucking Bull

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BCS

Bull Crap Standings

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BBS

Big Bull Shoot

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CBS

Creative Bull S***

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BCIS

Bull Crap In Society

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XSM-73

Fairchild Bull Goose Experimental Long Range Decoy missile

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What does bull pen mean?

Bull pen
The bull pen or bull system (Roach 1993) was a feature of Australian waterfront workers' life experience under the Dog-collar act where men were hired for the day on that day by lower management in a competitive face to face environment. This was strongly felt to be demeaning by workers. Roach states that the Port Kembla branch of the wharfies union dismantled the bull system in 1938 (Roach, 1993). Given the unskilled nature of waterfront work, the hunger for jobs, and the dismantling of union power on the waterfront under the Dog-collar act, the bull pen forced workers to compete and to cultivate servile and sycophantic relationships with individual foremen. The bull system was eventually dismantled by a period of low unemployment and union power during the 1940s.

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