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bullet US English

a projectile for firing from a rifle, revolver, or other small firearm, typically made of metal, cylindrical and pointed, and sometimes containing an explosive

bullet point US English

each of several items in a list, typically the ideas or arguments in an article or presentation and typically printed with a bullet before each for emphasis

bullet train US English

a high-speed passenger train

magic bullet US English

a medicine or other remedy, especially an undiscovered or hypothetical one, with wonderful or highly specific properties

rubber bullet US English

a large projectile made of rubber and shot from a firearm, used especially in riot control

silver bullet US English

a bullet made of silver, used in fiction as a supposedly magical method of killing werewolves

plastic bullet US English

a bullet made of PVC or another plastic material, typically used by security and police forces for riot control

bite the bullet in bite US English

decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been putting off or hesitating over

bulletproof US English

designed to resist the penetration of bullets

dumdum bullet in dumdum (also dumdum bullet) US English

a kind of soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact

bullet English-French

balle f

bullet English-Italian

pallottola f

plastic bullet English-German

Plastikgeschoss

bullet wound in wound English-French

blessure par balle

the bullet was embedded in his arm in embed English-Spanish

la bala quedó alojada en el brazo

the bullet had lodged in his spine in lodge2 English-Spanish

la bala se le había alojado en la columna