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birddog

birddog is the alternative spelling 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

See all 9 meanings of bird dog

Forms of birddog

Noun
pluralbirddogs
Verb
third-person singular presentbirddogs
present participlebirddogging
past participlebirddogged
pastbirddogged

Questions about birddog

What is birddog the alternative spelling of?
Birddog is the alternative spelling of bird dog.

Words near birddog in the dictionary

  1. birdcatchers
  2. birdcatching
  3. birdcliff
  4. birdcliffs
  5. birdcrap
  6. birddog
  7. birddogged
  8. birddogging
  9. birddogs
  10. birddom
  11. birde

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birddog (page history and authors); bird dog (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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