sheep
sheep /ʃ'iːp/ (sheep)
1 [N-COUNT]
A sheep is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat.
...grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing.
2 [N-PLURAL] usu like N
If you say that a group of people are like sheep, you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person.
3
see also black sheepblack sheep
[N-COUNT] usu sing, oft the N of n
If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
1 [N-COUNT]
A sheep is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat.
...grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing.
2 [N-PLURAL] usu like N
If you say that a group of people are like sheep, you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person.
3
see also black sheepblack sheep
[N-COUNT] usu sing, oft the N of n
If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.