Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who protects or defends the person; a life-guard; collectively, the guard charged with the protection of some person, as a prince or an officer; hence, retinue; attendance; following.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
- noun Retinue; attendance; following.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or group of persons, often
armed , responsible forprotecting an individual. - verb transitive To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to
protect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb accompany and protect from physical harm
- noun someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- noun a group of men who escort and protect some important person
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of the term bodyguard, they prefer executive protection.
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My God! Your right, Michael K-now thats what I call a bodyguard!!
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Trevor leaves town on FBI business, but to keep Bobbie Faye from having one of her notorious very bad bad bad days as he will be gone for three days, he leaves her under the care of what he calls a bodyguard; she calls that person an adult babysitter.
When A Man Loves A Weapon-Toni McGee Causey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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The bodyguard is his nineteen-year-old kid, and the lad has fukced up every other job Beck has ever given him in the organization.
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So to play it safe, I call my bodyguard and make sure he comes tonight.
The Celebrity 2010
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Having a female bodyguard is more than just a status symbol in Russia.
Killing of glamour model-bodyguard stuns Moscow « Isegoria 2008
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He yells for Balsa to hear that they will defeat her and that her job as a bodyguard is over.
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Fool Moon - The mutilated corpse of mobster Johnny Marcone's bodyguard is discovered by the police, only the murder weapon appears to be fangs and claws.
REVIEW: Wizard For Hire by Jim Butcher (SFBC Omnibus Collection) 2006
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Horrocks, a salvager and the King's former bodyguard, is called upon by the Queen to find the missing King who's gone into hiding after a failed assassination attempt that took the life of one of his sons.
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And then we have also had that request for those individuals who -- without using the word bodyguard - have a male presence.
chained_bear commented on the word bodyguard
"... Tammy uncovered a smuggled abalone shipment worth millions of rand. Shortly afterward, John's cell phone rang.
'We're going to get your dog,' a low, terse voice hissed. 'We know where it hides.'
He heard a click, the dial tone, and the echo of someone who wanted his dog dead. That threatening phone call was the first of many...
The solution proved simple and effective: Tammy got a bodyguard. Tammy was relaxing in her police kennel when she first saw her new protector, a big, lumbering German shepherd. Mac was a police attack dog with years of duty in drug busts.... In minutes, Tammy and her protector were racing around the kennel play area, instant bosom buddies."
—Merrily Weisbord and Kim Kachanoff, Dogs with Jobs: Working Dogs Around the World (NY and London: Pocket Books, 2000), 241–242
July 28, 2009