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eagle dads

eagle dads is the plural of eagle dad.

Meaning of eagle dad

Noun

eagle dad (plural eagle dads)

  1. (informal) A father who drives his child/children (especially his son) very hard to succeed.
    • He came straight after work to pick me up from university because my car is in for its MOT. Perhaps, an eagle dad would have made me walk home. Perhaps, an eagle dad would have made me fix the car myself... in fact, come to think of it, an eagle dad wouldn't have bought me a car in the first place...2012, Nathan Velayudhan, “Tiger Mums and Eagle Dads”, in The Leeds Debacle, number 7, page 17

Questions about eagle dads

What is eagle dads the plural of?
Eagle dads is the plural of eagle dad.

Words near eagle dads in the dictionary

  1. eagersome
  2. eagle
  3. Eagle and Swinethorpe
  4. Eagle County
  5. eagle dad
  6. eagle dads
  7. eagle dance
  8. eagle dances
  9. Eagle effect
  10. Eagle effects
  11. eagle eye

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