slip steward

English

Noun

slip steward (plural slip stewards)

1. In coursing or greyhound racing, an official who ensures the dogs are properly kept in slips (collars that allow quick release).
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 133:

     There was a coursing club, of which my husband was slip-steward and a most devoted adherent to the sport.