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bird dog

/ˈbɜːd dɒɡ/

bird dog noun: a gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.

Noun

bird dog (plural bird dogs)

  1. A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.
    • Tim Johnson was the property of Mr. Harry Johnson who drove the Mobile bus and lived on the southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
  2. A tout.
  3. A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee.
  4. (CB slang) A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps).
    • I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
      With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on1986, Steve Earle, Guitar Town
  5. A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted.
  6. A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner
    • Johnny is the joker that's been tryin' to steal my baby
      He's a bird dog1958, Everly Brothers, Bird Dog

Verb

bird dog (third-person singular simple present bird dogs, present participle bird dogging, simple past and past participle bird dogged)

  1. (intransitive) To watch closely.
  2. (transitive) To seek out.
  3. (slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors.

bird dog meaning in Tamil

bird dog in Tamil

பறவைப்பிடி நாய், பரோபகாரி, நேரக்கள்ளன், பறவைகளை வேட்டையாடவும், சிறார்களின், மற்றொருவருக்காகப் பணம்

Forms of bird dog

Noun
pluralbird dogs
alternative formbird-dog
alternative formbirddog
Verb
third-person singular presentbird dogs
present participlebird dogging
past participlebird dogged
pastbird dogged

Origin of bird dog

Compound of bird + dog.

Questions about bird dog

What does bird dog mean?
Bird dog means a gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.
What is bird dog in Tamil?
Bird dog in Tamil is பறவைப்பிடி நாய், பரோபகாரி, நேரக்கள்ளன். See Bird dog meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bird dog?
Bird dog can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bird dog?
Bird dog is pronounced /ˈbɜːd dɒɡ/.
What is the plural of bird dog?
The plural of bird dog is bird dogs.

Words near bird dog in the dictionary

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  2. bird colony
  3. bird course
  4. bird courses
  5. Bird Cove
  6. bird dog
  7. bird dogged
  8. bird dogging
  9. bird dogs
  10. bird dropping spider
  11. bird dropping spiders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bird dog (page history and authors); bird dog (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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