sheep

childish humorous nonstandard plural sheeps · alternative humorous nonstandard shoop · alternative obsolete sheepe

1. countableA woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

   There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

   1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449

2. countablestrictlyA member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.
3. countableA timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

   Synonyms: lamb, ovine, introvert, mouse, recluse, shybie, wallflower, shrinking violet

4. countablepluralChristianityA religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).

   1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace. And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask the sheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?

5. uncountableSheepskin leather.
6. countablespeech recognitionA person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.
7. countableA gullible person.

   She is a sheep who believed our lies, and we are the wolves who caught her.

1. humorouspluralplural of shoop