Definition of "deputy sheriff" []

• Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He worked as a cooper at Dundee, Illinois, but crime prevention was evidently in his blood, and after running down a counterfeiting gang he was appointed deputy sheriff of Kane County, and later of Cook County, Chicago."
• "Miranda Shakes, and that deputy sheriff she dated."