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Dog

noun
/dɑɡ/
Word Frequency: 32.5

Definitions

1.nounA mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
"The dog barked all night long."
2.nounAny member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
3.nounA male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
4.nounA dull, unattractive girl or woman.
"She’s a real dog."
5.nounA man (derived from definition 2).
"He's a silly dog."
6.nounA coward.
"Come back and fight, you dogs!"
7.nounSomeone who is morally reprehensible.
"You dirty dog."
8.nounA sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
9.nounAny of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
10.nounA click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
11.nounA metal support for logs in a fireplace.
"The dogs were too hot to touch."
12.nounThe eighteenth Lenormand card.
13.nounA hot dog.
14.nounUnderdog.
15.noun(almost always in the plural) Foot.
16.noun(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
"My dog is dead."
17.nounOne of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
18.nounA flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
19.verbTo pursue with the intent to catch.
20.verbTo follow in an annoying or harassing way.
"The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."
21.verbTo fasten a hatch securely.
"It is very important to dog down these hatches..."
22.verbTo watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
"I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."
23.verbTo intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
"A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."
24.verbTo criticize.
25.verbTo divide (a watch) with a comrade.
26.nounMeat from a dog eaten as food.
"We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time."
27.nounMeat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
28.nounAn insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
"Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!"

Synonyms

Canis canisCanis domesticusCanis familiariscaninedomestic doghoundsirestudblokechapdudefellow

Rhymes With

agogbogfoganalogcatalogueslogmonologueepilogue
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