heeler

Meaning

1. A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
2. A quick runner.
3. A dog that readily comes to heel.
4. (Australia) A dog used for cattle droving.
5. (US, dated, slang) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
6. The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it.
7. (US) A student journalist at Yale University.

Synonyms

quick runner

Translations

guérisseur

الإسكافيّ

Befehlsempfänger

talonneur

welgesteld

kunduracı

Etymology

From heel + -er.