heeler

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.

1. The heeler is as bad as the steeler.

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