Bull Moose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912.

II. Bull Moose ·add. ·- 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.".