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Bull Moose   Listen
noun
Bull Moose  n.  U. S. Politics)
(a)
A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." (Cant)
(b)
The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912.






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"Bull Moose" Quotes from Famous Books



... standing knee-deep in the water, and rooting up the lily stems with his long, pendulous nose, was the biggest and blackest bull moose in the world. As he pulled the roots from the mud and tossed up his dripping head I could see his horns—four and a half feet across, if they were an inch, and the palms shining like tea trays in the moonlight. ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... passed the north barrack gate, tumping (as he said, which means in English, Sir, hauling) an immense bull moose on a sled, though why he didn't say so, I don't know, unless he wanted to show he knew what M'Clure calls the botanical word for it. It was the largest hanimal ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton



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