bird dog

plural bird dogs · alternative bird-dog · alternative birddog

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 slangA 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 on

   1986, 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 dog

   1958, Everly Brothers, Bird Dog

present singular third person bird dogs · participle present bird dogging · participle past bird dogged · past bird dogged · alternative bird-dog · alternative birddog

1. intransitiveTo watch closely.
2. transitiveTo seek out.
3. slangaeronauticsA multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors.