SHEEP


Meaning of SHEEP in English

(~)

1.

A ~ is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat.

...grassland on which a flock of ~ were grazing.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that a group of people are like ~, you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person.

N-PLURAL: usu like N disapproval

3.

see also black ~

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