bird-dog

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verb

ˈbərd-ˌdȯg

bird-dogged; bird-dogging; bird-dogs

intransitive verb

: to watch closely

transitive verb

: to seek out : follow, detect

bird dog

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noun

: a gundog trained to hunt or retrieve birds

: one (such as a canvasser or talent scout) who seeks out something for another

: one who steals another's date

Example Sentences

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Noun

The beloved Tindall, who began as a scouting bird dog in the 1970s and eventually ascended to chief scout, died in his hometown of Toronto on Tuesday.

Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022 Bob Tindall, a decades-long talent bird dog for the Bruins who ascended to the club’s chief scout role for a number of years in the 1990s, died Tuesday, according to reports in his hometown of Toronto.

Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022 The bright spot, for those of you who have no bird dog, are blueberries.

John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 The McGill Big Three are the McGill curl-up, the side bridge, and the bird dog.

Roger Lockridge, Men's Health, 26 Apr. 2022 The bird dog crunch is an excellent core stability exercise that works your rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, and glutes.

SELF, 28 Jan. 2022 Maybe it’s because their life spans are shorter than ours that bird dog seasons seem to have less to do with a calendar year than the whole of their lives in consideration of human constraints and conditions.

Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021 The gun has a lot of nice details, with beautiful engraving on the sides of the receiver, lovely wood with checkering, and a small metal plate on the bottom of the stock grip that shows a bird dog with a duck in its mouth.

The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Feb. 2021 Strengthen your core, which will help prevent back pain, with planks, abdominal curls and moves like bird dog and Superman.

Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021 See More

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