- a variation of babysit.
baby-sit
Britishverb
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But Giamatti sets Hunham on a carefully trodden path toward heroic humanity when he’s forced to baby-sit his most troublesome student, newcomer Dominic Sessa’s Angus Tully, on the depopulated campus over Christmas break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
His antics had some people joking that he should come and baby-sit and do domestic chores for them.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2022
"I wouldn’t want to baby-sit — I mean, be married to — anyone else, ever."
From Fox News ● Nov. 24, 2021
But one couple's decision to go out was another's chance to baby-sit; so it became difficult to earn coupons.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2017
She can’t come out—gotta baby-sit with Louie’s sisters—but she stands in the doorway a lot, all the time singing, clicking her fingers, the same song: Apples, peaches, pumpkin pah-ay.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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