sheepdog
Noun

sheepdog (plural sheepdogs)

  1. A breed of dog, used for herding sheep.
  2. A breed of dog used for guarding sheep.
  3. (slang, dated) A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
  4. (US, slang, police) A police officer.
Translations Verb

sheepdog (sheepdogs, present participle sheepdogging; past and past participle sheepdogged)

  1. To chaperon or shepherd.
    • 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises (ISBN 9781618242006):
      Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
    • 2009, Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs, PublicAffairs (ISBN 9780786749461):
      On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.



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