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noun
- an American plover, Charadrius vociferus, having two black bands around the upper breast.
noun plural -deer or -deers
- a large brown-and-white North American plover, Charadrius vociferus, with two black breast bands and a noisy cry
also killdee, 1731, American English, species of North American ring-plover, the name imitative of its cry.