Definition of "sheep-dip" []

• The practice within the intelligence community of assigning to agents non-intelligence or military jobs in order to disguise their source agency. (verb)

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• "And one sees this only after having been removed from the sheep-dip that is American corporate media submersion."
• "The first known example of moral dilemma and self was one Elmer Tug, a ripe Anglo-Saxon sheep dipper who one day didn't know where his boots ended and the sheep-dip began."
• "Mainly they seemed irreproachably mature, men who might easily have other jobs as engineers, or sales executives in a regional weed killer and sheep-dip firm."