dog

A1
Pronunciation
/dɑɡ/
/dɒɡ/
/dɔɡ/
Noun
21 definition(s)
1 Definition

A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

Example Sentences
  • The dog barked all night long.
2 Definition

Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.

3 Definition

A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.

4 Definition

A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

Example Sentences
  • She’s a real dog.
5 Definition

A man (derived from definition 2).

Example Sentences
  • He's a silly dog.
6 Definition

A coward.

Example Sentences
  • Come back and fight, you dogs!
7 Definition

Someone who is morally reprehensible.

Example Sentences
  • You dirty dog.
8 Definition

A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

9 Definition

Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

10 Definition

A 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 Definition

A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

Example Sentences
  • The dogs were too hot to touch.
12 Definition

The eighteenth Lenormand card.

13 Definition

A hot dog.

14 Definition

Underdog.

15 Definition

(almost always in the plural) Foot.

16 Definition

(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

Example Sentences
  • My dog is dead.
17 Definition

One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

18 Definition

A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.

19 Definition

Meat from a dog eaten as food.

Example Sentences
  • We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
20 Definition

Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.

21 Definition

An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.

Example Sentences
  • Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
Verb
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

To pursue with the intent to catch.

2 Definition

To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

Example Sentences
  • The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3 Definition

To fasten a hatch securely.

Example Sentences
  • It is very important to dog down these hatches...
4 Definition

To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

Example Sentences
  • I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
5 Definition

To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

Example Sentences
  • A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
6 Definition

To criticize.

7 Definition

To divide (a watch) with a comrade.