To bulldoze is to push down or clear away buildings, trees, or earth using a heavy machine called a bulldozer. It can also mean to force people to accept something by being very aggressive.
From “bulldozer,” a 19th-century American term that originally meant a severe beating or intimidation (a “dose” fit for a bull). Later, it became the name of the powerful earth-moving machine and then the verb.
Before it was a machine, a “bulldoze” was a metaphorical beating, a “bull-sized dose” of punishment or pressure. Today, when someone “bulldozes” an idea through a meeting, you can almost see the invisible metal blade shoving people aside.
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