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bull session
bull session
Any informal, spontaneous, and lengthy conversation or discussion among a group of people, especially men. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. My co-workers and I like to have bull sessions in the restaurant after we close for the night.
bull session
An informal discussion, as in College students love late-night bull sessions about anything and everything, from professors to poetry to politics . This expression originally referred to an exchange of opinions and anecdotes, including stories of sexual prowess, by men, and then came to be used more broadly. [Slang; c. 1915]
bull session
n. a session of casual conversation. The gals were sitting around enjoying a bull session.
bull session
An informal discussion. A bull session was originally a late-night college men's dormitory conversation with a wide range of topics—politics, sex, sports, sex, religion, sex . . . The word “bull,” which meant something boastful or outlandish, came from—no surprise here—“bullshit.”
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Gaius | | GAH-yoos (Ancient Roman), GAH-yuws (Ancient Roman), GIE-əs (English) | Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, Biblical |
| Johanne | | zho-AN (French), yo-HAHN-ne (Danish) | French, Danish, Norwegian, Medieval French |
| Luanna | | loo-AN-ə | English (Rare) |
| Thijmen | | - | Dutch |
| Zehra | | - | Turkish |
| Fortunato | | - | Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |