bird dog vs reporter

bird dog

noun
  • A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee. 

  • A dog, especially a pointer, used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds. 

  • A tout. 

  • A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner 

  • A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps). 

  • A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted. 

verb
  • A multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors. 

  • To seek out. 

  • To watch closely. 

reporter

noun
  • A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings. 

  • A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population. 

  • A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television. 

  • A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction. 

  • Someone or something that reports. 

How often have the words bird dog and reporter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )