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  • noun Plural form of bird-dog.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bird-dog.

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Examples

  • But nobody around here has badmouthed Blakely quite so vigorously as O'Dell, the retired Marine general who bird-dogs Katrina country for President Bush.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • But nobody around here has badmouthed Blakely quite so vigorously as O'Dell, the retired Marine general who bird-dogs Katrina country for President Bush.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • In a milder form, salesmen use it to make existing customers into valuable helpers and bird-dogs by exploiting their desire to justify their purchases.

    Pat Dollard membrain 2007

  • No one outside special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's tight-lipped and discrete circle of bird-dogs really knows what the future holds in the investigation of the Bush administration's scurrilous outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Beach Blogger 2005

  • No one outside special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's tight-lipped and discrete circle of bird-dogs really knows what the future holds in the investigation of the Bush administration's scurrilous outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

    Adding 'A' Plus 'A' Beach Blogger 2005

  • People who work in accident insurance claims and sales offices are also good choices as bird-dogs, because they too know about wrecked cars.

    How to Sell Anything to Anybody Joe Girard Stanley H. Brown 2005

  • I have talked about business cards and direct mail and bird-dogs and phone calls.

    How to Sell Anything to Anybody Joe Girard Stanley H. Brown 2005

  • And with that, the Apache battalion of attack choppers and their Kiowa bird-dogs turned back for their airfield for the mission debrief and post-game beers.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • Soon khaki figures were mingled everywhere with the burghers as they searched like bird-dogs for the wounded.

    The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

  • They stood like two dumb bird-dogs, pointing, and we had to come about abreast of them before we knew why we were summoned.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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