# bulldozer

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/ · frequency rank #33,548

## Definitions
1. A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
2. One who bulldozes.
3. A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
4. A bully; an overbearing individual.

## Etymology
Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.

## Common misspellings (12)
`bbulldozer`, `bluldozer`, `buldlozer`, `buldozer`, `bullddozer`, `bulldoezr`, `bulldozerr`, `bulldozre`, `bulldozzer`, `bulldzoer`, `bullodzer`, `ublldozer`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bulldozer