scout

Definitions

• A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
• An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
• A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
• A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
• (British) A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.
• (British) A fielder in a game for practice.
• (historical) A fighter aircraft.
• (informal) Term of address for a man or boy.