Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
- v. transitive To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
- n. Retinue; attendance; following.
WordNet 3.0
- v. accompany and protect from physical harm
- n. someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- n. a group of men who escort and protect some important person
Etymologies
- body + guard (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Instead of the term bodyguard, they prefer executive protection.”
“My God! Your right, Michael K-now thats what I call a bodyguard!!”
“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.”
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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.”
“So to play it safe, I call my bodyguard and make sure he comes tonight.”
“Having a female bodyguard is more than just a status symbol in Russia.”
“He yells for Balsa to hear that they will defeat her and that her job as a bodyguard is over.”
“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)
“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.”
“And then we have also had that request for those individuals who -- without using the word bodyguard - have a male presence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bodyguard’.
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defense
shield, aegis, armor, cuirass, plastron, inured, reinforced, cataphract, proof, targus, buckler, shield bearer and 123 more...
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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Guarded
guarded, guard, cattle guard, guardrail, guardian, guardian ad litem, guardhouse, prison guard, vanguard, blackguard, bodyguard, coast guard and 45 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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Seven
turnskin, therianthrope, mimic, mimical, mimetic, animagus, selkie, incantatory, cynanthrope, therianthropy, nagual, pooka and 200 more...
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azabanjan's Words
evapotranspiration, juggernaut, eismitte, inmates, independent, currently, locator, member, bodyguard, minute, telephone, regulations and 37 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "... 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 Jul 28, 2009