cattle prod
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The messages started on her Twitter account, some accusing her of using a "cattle prod" to goad her father into walking.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
Then at the subsequent premiere of “Jackass Forever,” Zayn confronted Knoxville on the red carpet, where he was chased off by Knoxville with a cattle prod.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
“We expected that eye contact worked like a cattle prod to get two people back onto the same wavelength,” Wohltjen says.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021
“They make it seem like I’m up here with a cattle prod and it’s not like that,” he said.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
Moira got hold of her cattle prod and her whistle, ordering Aunt Elizabeth to unclip them from her belt.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
