SHEEP

[noun] [C] [plural] sheep - a farm animal, with thick esp. whitish-coloured hair, that eats grass, and which is kept for its hair, skin and meatWool comes from sheep.There was a flock (= group) of sheep on the hillside.We heard the sheep bleating/baaing in the field.See also ewe; lamb; mutton; ram.(disapproving) If you say that a group of people are (like) sheep, you mean that they all behave in the same way or all behave as they are told, because they are not able or do not want to think or act independently.The politicians are like sheep, all afraid to act first, waiting to be told what to do.(UK and ANZ) To separate/tell/sort (out) the sheep from the goats is to make clear which people in a particular group are of a higher ability than the others.The uphill stages of the race will sort the sheep from the goats.(ANZ) A sheep station is a large farm on which sheep are kept.