Australian kelpie

noun

: kelpie entry 2

Radar the beagle and Taz the Australian kelpie are part of a crack team of sniffer dogs sweeping apartments and hotel rooms across the city to combat an infestation that has reached plaguelike proportions.

—David Hinckley, Daily News (New York), 3 Mar. 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

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