den father

American  

noun

1. (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.

2. Informal. a man who serves as an adviser or protector to a group of people.

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Example Sentences

Adam22, a lanky, heavily tattooed BMX biker who is No Jumper’s owner and chief interviewer, played den father on the tour.

From New York Times

We lived there at father's marster's place till most of de chillun wus 'bout grown, den father bought a place in Franklin County from Mr. Jack Griffin.

From Project Gutenberg

In that starry dream of a detective story which I sometimes have, where sleuth-hounds are pattering along the Milky Way and pursue at last the Great Bear to his den, Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes, the one spectacled, the other lynx-eyed, are following the prey in leash.

From Project Gutenberg