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dog
/dɔɡ/
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What does dog mean?
noun
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
More meanings (35)
noun
- (figuratively, slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (figuratively, slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (slang) An underdog.
- (slang) Foot; toe.
- (slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (informal) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
- Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.
- (rare) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- (derogatory, figuratively, slang) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory, figuratively) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (derogatory, figuratively) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- (historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- (archaic) A cock, as of a gun.
verb
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (slang) To criticize.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
adjective
- (slang) Of inferior quality; very bad.
proper noun
- (humorous) The language supposedly spoken by dogs
- The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- (slang) Newcastle Brown Ale
- The Dog Star; Sirius.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɔɡ/
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“Bring in the whole world. But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.”
Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.
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Across an orchard of the suburbs came a small boy, after him a big dog, urged by a man in the background.
It retreated a little way, very like a dog being sent home, and stopped, looking at me imploringly with canine brown eyes.
She announced her condition by a long, heartbreaking wolf howl that sent every dog bristling with fear, then sprang straight for Buck.