slip steward

noun

In coursing or greyhound racing, an official who ensures the dogs are properly kept in slips (collars that allow quick release).

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Meanings

nounslip steward (plural slip stewards)

plural slip stewards

  1. In coursing or greyhound racing, an official who ensures the dogs are properly kept in slips (collars that allow quick release).

    There was a coursing club, of which my husband was slip-steward and a most devoted adherent to the sport.

    1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 133
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slip steward,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slip%20steward.

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