banderilla
- n a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight
- One of his best scenes from the early days of bullfighting shows a group of toreros harassing with spears and a primitive banderilla a defiant bull that has downed two of their .
- Bevan leaned from the charge and planted a banderilla in the bull's shoulder: "Does the Prime Minister realize that we are broadcasting to France every night asking them to .