Other forms: bulldozers
A bulldozer is the heavy machine with a wide blade that pushes earth flat. A bulldozer arrived, flattened by bulldozers, the bulldozer blade.
It runs on tracks rather than wheels, which is what lets it push against enormous resistance without sinking. The blade is at the front and a ripper is sometimes fitted at the back. As a verb, to bulldoze means both to flatten with one and to force something through against opposition: bulldoze the plan through. Note bulldozing, used of a person who simply overrides everybody.
1nounbulldozerA tracked machine with a wide blade for pushing earth.
“A bulldozer pushed the rubble into a huge pile.”
2verbforceTo force something through against opposition.
“The government bulldozed the new law through parliament despite fierce protests.”
bulldozer is an earth-moving machine.
The word came from American slang bulldose, meaning a dose of punishment fit for a bull. It meant to intimidate before it meant a machine, and the machine was named for the way it shoves everything aside.
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City, Vehicles & Machines