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What about the sheep token in Agricola? It's a meeple, but a sheep.
Agreed, though, the typical usage of the word needs to be eradicated.
That would properly be a Shmeeple, and is a beast of a different burden – specfically, a sheep wearing meeple clothing.
…which makes you wonder…
Is there a wolf meeple among the Shmeeple – one that you've never detected? Hmm.
Every harvest, you lose one sheep.
Hm. I could turn Agricola into a cut-throat game of deception…
Or just play Werewolf.
I've always found the correlation between people that use that term and their readiness to believe conspiracy theories without credible evidence to be a bit ironic