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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Perhaps from bull + dose

bulldoze

 verb
     
Related topics: Construction
bull‧doze [transitive]
1TBC to destroy buildings etc with a bulldozer
2TBC to push objects such as earth and rocks out of the way with a bulldozer
3

bulldoze somebody into (doing) something

to force someone to do something that they do not really want to do
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