slip steward
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[edit]Noun
[edit]slip steward (plural slip stewards)
- In coursing or greyhound racing, an official who ensures the dogs are properly kept in slips (collars that allow quick release).
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 133:
- There was a coursing club, of which my husband was slip-steward and a most devoted adherent to the sport.