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Definition of bird dog in English: bird dognoun North American 1A gun dog trained to retrieve birds. Example sentencesExamples - Ergal the pointer was only a year old and he moved with a stylish grace that heralds the beginning of a great bird dog.
- It's about selective hunting seasons, pest control, cutting the grass the right height, bird dogs, falconry, outsmarting coyotes, and tons more.
- He never tired of watching well-trained bird dogs search for quail, coming to an abrupt halt and freezing like granite statues.
- He is a great bird dog, and mouser, too, but not the most handsome dog ever.
- Among Bullock County residents, owning a fine bird dog could build a man's reputation almost as quickly as inheriting large sums of money or land.
- Mrs. Peacock exploded, leaning forward in her seat, her upturned nose reminding me strongly of a bird dog watching his master go in for the kill so they could go and fetch.
- We've had three Labs and four Weimaraners of our own, all good bird dogs, and all of them led good lives, closely paralleling Ginger's.
- ‘I love running over Ripper the Bird Dog,’ I answered, referring to a sequence of events beginning with Aunt Pearl accidentally poisoning her husband's prize bird dog while trying to give the pesky poodle next door a ‘bitter pill.’
- When James found her she was just some ratty bird dog on the side of some country back road.
- A bird dog controls birds on the course that otherwise pose a hazard to planes at a nearby airport.
- If they're not, the bird dogs act as slobbering alarm clocks.
- Still, it pains me that birds hit my house and that they risk encounters with my husband's bird dog (soft-mouthed though he is) and my daughter's cat, a rescued stray.
- The German longhaired pointer owes its looks and temperament to several of the long-haired continental bird dogs, as well as the Irish and Gordon setters.
- He is an active participant in shooting sports, hunting with bird dogs and retrievers, and he is an experienced fly fisherman.
- Individuals who owned great bird dogs were widely respected, as were the handlers who trained them.
- I was too busy working and training bird dogs to try to earn a living for my family to be concerned with who was in the gallery and what they did for a living.
- Anyone who hunts with bird dogs would remark the similarity between his approach and a hunting dog's point.
- They looked like bird dogs, their eyes all fixed on the exact same spot in the middle distance.
- The essence of versatility and intelligence, weimaraners have been used as bird dogs and water retrievers and have also been used on wolves, wild cats, deer, mountain lion and bear.
- And when it came to the specialized work of breeding and training the finest bird dogs in the country, only a Bullock County native would do.
2informal A talent scout. Example sentencesExamples - When a player with talent comes along, it's open season for scouts, agents and the buscadores, or bird dogs, who act as go-betweens and collect finder's fees when they deliver a young player to a scout or an agent.
- The bird-dog scouts -- the freelancing talent evaluators who scour the country's fields and streets for promising players in a kind of informal first stage of recruitment -- say many clubs agree to sign the players they bring them and then never come through.
- Whispers one bird dog who knows the lefty well: ‘He's a true Southerner, a NASCAR kinda guy, a big hunt-and-fish guy.’
- Officials with the clubs in the Dominican Republic, meanwhile, say the bird-dog scouts, who typically get $200 to $400 per player they produce, often recycle players who have failed with one club and present them as untested and 16 to another club.
- One NFL bird dog tells the Spies he spent $350 on ducats-n-parking to watch every single Redskins training-camp practice.
Synonyms talent spotter, talent scout, recruiter
verb [with object]North American informal Search out or pursue with dogged determination. reporters bird-dogged the candidates for several weeks Example sentencesExamples - I'm going to wait until I've bird-dogged this one over time before I come to any conclusions.
- Addendum, March 14, 2003: The New York Sun's Ira Stoll, who used to bird-dog the New York Times with his SmarterTimes Web site, writes to complain that the Sun did talk to somebody on Hersh's side - New Yorker editor David Remnick.
- I bird-dogged all four of the major presidential candidates during the 2000 primary in New Hampshire, a state where the level of access to such politicians is unbelievably high.
- One day at the end of the school year, the Quartermaster section of the Base holds a picnic at an officially designated ‘NonAuthorized’ beach, and I watch the Colonel bird-dog my mother all afternoon.
- In fact, Halyburton can come to a complete stop in only two lengths of the ship, all maneuvering characteristics which are useful when the vessels you're trying to catch are typically no bigger than the helicopter bird-dogging it.
- Nobody would admit to bird-dogging if caught, but nobody would be truthful if he flat denied ever doing it.
- That's $119.88 a year David would be asked to pay to have Intersections keep an eye on his creditworthiness and card usage, and bird-dog for signs of possible fraud.
- In May 2005, after a law professor bird-dogged the case for three years, the 60-year-old Allen walked out of the Orange Correctional Center, a stooped and bitter symbol of a miscarriage of justice.
- Powers doesn't disparage these lowly but mighty scriveners, writing that their greatest attributes are bird-dogging factual errors in the press, speaking in a vernacular, and having fun.
- Scouting young talent starts with a network of vendors, racing personnel, manufacturers, series managers and even media members who bird-dog potential candidates.
- All the same, it certainly merits bird-dogging, if for no other reason than the IRS should be held accountable for the timing and veracity of its claims against the NAACP.
- Aside from just being tired of seeing you bird-dog her every chance you get, the fact that you conned her into keeping things from me under the pretext of ‘helping’ you was all I could take.
- In a sense, ironic circumstances seem to be still bird-dogging the Klitschko brothers whether these fluent linguists are speaking English, German, Russian or Ukrainian.
- Trusted charge Sir Lancelot turns out to be bird-dogging his lady; everyone else kept in line.
- I probably bird-dogged most of the time.
Definition of bird dog in US English: bird dognounˈbərd ˈˌdɔɡˈbərd ˈˌdôɡ North American 1A gun dog trained to retrieve birds. Example sentencesExamples - It's about selective hunting seasons, pest control, cutting the grass the right height, bird dogs, falconry, outsmarting coyotes, and tons more.
- They looked like bird dogs, their eyes all fixed on the exact same spot in the middle distance.
- ‘I love running over Ripper the Bird Dog,’ I answered, referring to a sequence of events beginning with Aunt Pearl accidentally poisoning her husband's prize bird dog while trying to give the pesky poodle next door a ‘bitter pill.’
- Mrs. Peacock exploded, leaning forward in her seat, her upturned nose reminding me strongly of a bird dog watching his master go in for the kill so they could go and fetch.
- He is an active participant in shooting sports, hunting with bird dogs and retrievers, and he is an experienced fly fisherman.
- Anyone who hunts with bird dogs would remark the similarity between his approach and a hunting dog's point.
- Among Bullock County residents, owning a fine bird dog could build a man's reputation almost as quickly as inheriting large sums of money or land.
- If they're not, the bird dogs act as slobbering alarm clocks.
- When James found her she was just some ratty bird dog on the side of some country back road.
- Still, it pains me that birds hit my house and that they risk encounters with my husband's bird dog (soft-mouthed though he is) and my daughter's cat, a rescued stray.
- He never tired of watching well-trained bird dogs search for quail, coming to an abrupt halt and freezing like granite statues.
- A bird dog controls birds on the course that otherwise pose a hazard to planes at a nearby airport.
- Individuals who owned great bird dogs were widely respected, as were the handlers who trained them.
- He is a great bird dog, and mouser, too, but not the most handsome dog ever.
- We've had three Labs and four Weimaraners of our own, all good bird dogs, and all of them led good lives, closely paralleling Ginger's.
- Ergal the pointer was only a year old and he moved with a stylish grace that heralds the beginning of a great bird dog.
- The essence of versatility and intelligence, weimaraners have been used as bird dogs and water retrievers and have also been used on wolves, wild cats, deer, mountain lion and bear.
- I was too busy working and training bird dogs to try to earn a living for my family to be concerned with who was in the gallery and what they did for a living.
- The German longhaired pointer owes its looks and temperament to several of the long-haired continental bird dogs, as well as the Irish and Gordon setters.
- And when it came to the specialized work of breeding and training the finest bird dogs in the country, only a Bullock County native would do.
- 1.1informal A person whose job involves searching, especially a talent scout for a sports team.
Example sentencesExamples - When a player with talent comes along, it's open season for scouts, agents and the buscadores, or bird dogs, who act as go-betweens and collect finder's fees when they deliver a young player to a scout or an agent.
- Whispers one bird dog who knows the lefty well: ‘He's a true Southerner, a NASCAR kinda guy, a big hunt-and-fish guy.’
- The bird-dog scouts -- the freelancing talent evaluators who scour the country's fields and streets for promising players in a kind of informal first stage of recruitment -- say many clubs agree to sign the players they bring them and then never come through.
- Officials with the clubs in the Dominican Republic, meanwhile, say the bird-dog scouts, who typically get $200 to $400 per player they produce, often recycle players who have failed with one club and present them as untested and 16 to another club.
- One NFL bird dog tells the Spies he spent $350 on ducats-n-parking to watch every single Redskins training-camp practice.
Synonyms talent spotter, talent scout, recruiter
verbˈbərd ˈˌdɔɡˈbərd ˈˌdôɡ [with object]North American informal Search out or pursue with dogged determination. he ordered the vice president to bird-dog Congress for funds Example sentencesExamples - I probably bird-dogged most of the time.
- That's $119.88 a year David would be asked to pay to have Intersections keep an eye on his creditworthiness and card usage, and bird-dog for signs of possible fraud.
- I'm going to wait until I've bird-dogged this one over time before I come to any conclusions.
- Trusted charge Sir Lancelot turns out to be bird-dogging his lady; everyone else kept in line.
- Nobody would admit to bird-dogging if caught, but nobody would be truthful if he flat denied ever doing it.
- In May 2005, after a law professor bird-dogged the case for three years, the 60-year-old Allen walked out of the Orange Correctional Center, a stooped and bitter symbol of a miscarriage of justice.
- In fact, Halyburton can come to a complete stop in only two lengths of the ship, all maneuvering characteristics which are useful when the vessels you're trying to catch are typically no bigger than the helicopter bird-dogging it.
- In a sense, ironic circumstances seem to be still bird-dogging the Klitschko brothers whether these fluent linguists are speaking English, German, Russian or Ukrainian.
- I bird-dogged all four of the major presidential candidates during the 2000 primary in New Hampshire, a state where the level of access to such politicians is unbelievably high.
- Scouting young talent starts with a network of vendors, racing personnel, manufacturers, series managers and even media members who bird-dog potential candidates.
- Aside from just being tired of seeing you bird-dog her every chance you get, the fact that you conned her into keeping things from me under the pretext of ‘helping’ you was all I could take.
- One day at the end of the school year, the Quartermaster section of the Base holds a picnic at an officially designated ‘NonAuthorized’ beach, and I watch the Colonel bird-dog my mother all afternoon.
- All the same, it certainly merits bird-dogging, if for no other reason than the IRS should be held accountable for the timing and veracity of its claims against the NAACP.
- Powers doesn't disparage these lowly but mighty scriveners, writing that their greatest attributes are bird-dogging factual errors in the press, speaking in a vernacular, and having fun.
- Addendum, March 14, 2003: The New York Sun's Ira Stoll, who used to bird-dog the New York Times with his SmarterTimes Web site, writes to complain that the Sun did talk to somebody on Hersh's side - New Yorker editor David Remnick.
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