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bird-dog
verb- to flirt with another’s date US, 1941
- You oughta be out running around in a convertible, bird-dogging girls. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 184, 1962
- — American Speech, p. 193, October 1965: “Notes on campus vocabulary, 1964”
- to look for, find and return with someone or something US, 1948
- Old Preston was back out there bird-dogging suckers. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 98, 1969
- [T]he pilot-mogul had me out bird-dogging quiff: prowling bus depots and train stations for buxom young girls who’d fall prey to RKO contracts in exchnage for frequent nightime visits. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 199, 1994
- to eavesdrop US
- [S]ome wood suggests I stop bird—dogging his conversation (eavesdropping—one of my many character flaws). — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 185, 2002
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