单词 | bird dog |
释义 | Word Frequency bird dog US and Canadian noun 1. hunting a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot verb bird-dogWord forms: -dogs, -dogging or -dogged 2. informal to control closely with unceasing vigilance Word Frequency bird-dog(ˈbɜːdˌdɒɡ) verb (transitive) US 1. to observe closely Police bird-dogged the man's movements. 2. to attend politicians' public appearances and to ask them questions in order to pressurize them into making public statements of policy The journalist spent the election year bird-dogging Kennedy and Nixon. |
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