(transitive, idiomatic, US) To supervise.
As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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