Brewer's: Bull-dogs

in University slang, are the two myrmidons of the proctor, who attend his heels like dogs, and are ready to spring on any offending undergraduate like bull-dogs. (See Myrmidons.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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