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bird dogs

bird dogs is the plural of bird dog.

bird dogs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bird dog.

Meaning of bird dog

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

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Questions about bird dogs

What is bird dogs the plural of?
Bird dogs is the plural of bird dog.

Words near bird dogs in the dictionary

  1. bird courses
  2. Bird Cove
  3. bird dog
  4. bird dogged
  5. bird dogging
  6. bird dogs
  7. bird dropping spider
  8. bird dropping spiders
  9. bird fancier's lung
  10. bird farm
  11. bird farms

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