pit bull terrier

See also: pitbull terrier

English

Noun

An American pit bull terrier

pit bull terrier (plural pit bull terriers)

1. A medium-sized dog historically bred for dogfighting.

Synonyms

• pibble (informal), pit (slang), pit bull, pittie (informal), shitbull (pejorative), velvet hippo (slang)

Hypernyms

• molosser, mastiff

Translations

breed of dog

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 比特犬 (bei² dak⁶ hyun²)

  Mandarin: 比特犬 (bǐtèquǎn)

• Dutch: pitbullterriër (nl) m, pitbull (nl) m
• Finnish: amerikanpitbullterrieri, pitbull (fi), pitbulli
• French: pitbull (fr)
• Hungarian: pitbull (hu), pitbull terrier, amerikai pitbull terrier
• Irish: tarbh-bhrocaire m
• Japanese: ピットブル (pittoburu)
• Lithuanian: pitbulis m, pitbulterjeras m
• Malay: anjing pitbull
• Polish: pitbullterier (pl) m, pitbulterier (pl) m, pitbul (pl) m, pitbull (pl) m
• Portuguese: pitbull m

See also

• Staffordshire bull terrier
• bull terrier, bullterrier
• American pit bull terrier
• American Staffordshire terrier
• Amstaff
• dead game
• gameness

Further reading

• “pit bull terrier”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “pit bull terrier”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pit bull terrier”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pit bull terrier”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.