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Definition of bodyguard
: a usually armed attendant or group of attendants whose duty is to protect a person
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Examples of bodyguard in a Sentence
They entered the building surrounded by bodyguards.
a member of the royal bodyguard
Recent Examples of bodyguard from the Web
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A-Rod has joked about the fact that her fans keep mistaking him for a bodyguard.
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During a break in her Singapore concert, the Grammy winner stopped the show to wish her bodyguard Jacob a happy birthday.
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The d’Ennevals eventually gave up at which point the king sent his own gun-bearer and bodyguard, François Antoine.
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Milwaukee Bucks Team needs: A bodyguard for Giannis Picks: 17, 48 2016-17 results: 42-40, lost in first round Milwaukee could use a big man to play with Giannis Antetokounmpo, but a lot of the pieces are already set for the Bucks.
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Police bullets whizzed past him, hitting his bodyguard multiple times.
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Darrow, a Kansas City native, played the president’s loyal bodyguard Meechum.
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In a scene that may have raised more than a few eyebrows on Christian fundamentalists, Wednesday and his bodyguard and errand boy Shadow are guests of the God of Easter. Populating her plantation home are many different versions of Christ.
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Earlier Wednesday, Turkey rebuffed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution that condemned attacks against protesters in Washington by bodyguards who were traveling with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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First Known Use of bodyguard
1701
BODYGUARD Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of bodyguard for English Language Learners
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: a person or group of people whose job is to protect someone
BODYGUARD Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of bodyguard for Students
: a person or a group of persons whose duty it is to protect someone
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