dog
IPA: dˈɔg
noun
- A mammal of the family Canidae:
- 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, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- A person:
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- A mechanical device or support:
- 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.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot.
- (Cockney rhyming 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.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (firearms, archaic) A cock, as of a gun.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.
- (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.
- (Tyneside, slang) Newcastle Brown Ale
- Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
- Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
verb
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
adjective
- (slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.
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Examples of "dog" in Sentences
- They spellbound a dog.
- The dog was the only domesticated animal.
- Dogs, horses, and cows are all vertebrates.
- His primary predilection among animal is a dog.
- Her dog is a thoroughbred unlike other mixed dogs.
- Dogs swill blood rapaciously from the wounded animals.
- Nosy, being an old dog by now, dies in the attempt to save her friend.
- A whelp is a young wolf, dog or other animal, and also an impudent youth.
- The swimmer then grabs onto the dog, and the animal tows the swimmer to shore.
- Martin Clunes is to narrate a scientific examination of dog behaviour and the animal's relationship with humans in a documentary.
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