Bird dog (person)
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A Bird Dog is:
1. A person who is paid a referral fee for locating and promoting business opportunities for someone else. For example a referral fee, or "bird dog fee", is sometimes used in business. If Jake hires a company to perform some type of service and then recommends the company to Chester, who then hires the company and gives Jake as a reference, the company may pay Jake for "retrieving" the new customer.
2. Customers and associates of an automotive dealership that receive referral fees to promote customer loyalty. These networks are often structured as customer rewards programs.
3. In the real estate market
, a "bird dog" is someone who locates properties for investors or silent partners. In many U.S. states this practice is illegal unless the person receiving the fee has a valid real estate license. Violators may be subject to fines or even jail time.
4. A regional baseball scout. "Bird dogs" are generally not team employees but instead are members of a network of contacts established by a full-time area scout, and earn fees by suggesting youth players worth watching to the team.
5. A young man who goes about town searching for possible suitors, women of the night, and general romantic tomfoolery.
6. Bird-dogging is a tactic used by concerned citizens, use to pressure politicians to take a public stance on an issue, or to question a stance that they have already taken.
7. Sometimes used in the United States to describe a man who takes another man's girl. He is 'bird-dogging' the other man in doing so, and the other man becomes 'bird-dogged'. The saying is believed to be derived from 'singing like a bird' into the ear of the girl, while 'behaving like a dog' in reality by stealing the girl. This is explained and featured in the song 'Bird Dog'
by The Everly Brothers
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1. A person who is paid a referral fee for locating and promoting business opportunities for someone else. For example a referral fee, or "bird dog fee", is sometimes used in business. If Jake hires a company to perform some type of service and then recommends the company to Chester, who then hires the company and gives Jake as a reference, the company may pay Jake for "retrieving" the new customer.
2. Customers and associates of an automotive dealership that receive referral fees to promote customer loyalty. These networks are often structured as customer rewards programs.
3. In the real estate market
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
, a "bird dog" is someone who locates properties for investors or silent partners. In many U.S. states this practice is illegal unless the person receiving the fee has a valid real estate license. Violators may be subject to fines or even jail time.
4. A regional baseball scout. "Bird dogs" are generally not team employees but instead are members of a network of contacts established by a full-time area scout, and earn fees by suggesting youth players worth watching to the team.
5. A young man who goes about town searching for possible suitors, women of the night, and general romantic tomfoolery.
6. Bird-dogging is a tactic used by concerned citizens, use to pressure politicians to take a public stance on an issue, or to question a stance that they have already taken.
7. Sometimes used in the United States to describe a man who takes another man's girl. He is 'bird-dogging' the other man in doing so, and the other man becomes 'bird-dogged'. The saying is believed to be derived from 'singing like a bird' into the ear of the girl, while 'behaving like a dog' in reality by stealing the girl. This is explained and featured in the song 'Bird Dog'
Bird Dog (song)
"Bird Dog" is a song written by Boudleaux Bryant and recorded by The Everly Brothers released in 1958 and was a #1 hit on theBillboard Country Chart . The song also hit number two on the U.S...
by The Everly Brothers
Bird Dog (song)
"Bird Dog" is a song written by Boudleaux Bryant and recorded by The Everly Brothers released in 1958 and was a #1 hit on theBillboard Country Chart . The song also hit number two on the U.S...
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