Definition of "bodyguard" []

• A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons. (noun)

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• "Instead of the term bodyguard, they prefer executive protection."
• "My God! Your right, Michael K-now thats what I call a bodyguard!!"
• "Trevor leaves town on FBI business, but to keep Bobbie Faye from having one of her notorious very bad bad bad days as he will be gone for three days, he leaves her under the care of what he calls a bodyguard; she calls that person an adult babysitter."