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verb

• to do nothing of value.

  Person A: What are you up to?
  
  Person B: Just fucking the dog.

  Person A: What are you going to do tonight?
  
  Person B: Oh, I'll probably just fuck the dog.

  If it's a choice between going out and maybe screwing the pooch or staying home and fucking the dog, I'll take fucking the dog every time.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to waste time.

  Last edited on Apr 17 2013. Submitted by Dave C. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on Jun 18 1999.

• to waste time while at one's job. May involve feigning productive work.

  I totally fucked the dog at work today.

  Fridays are fuck the dog day.

  • See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
  • See more words with the same meaning: to waste time.

  Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by Dave C. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on Jun 18 1999.

notes

• Predominantly Canadian expression. Variants include "screw the pooch", "ducked the fog". Used by French Canadians as "fourrer le chien."
  
  Also "dog fucker": a person who never does anything of redeeming value.

  Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by Dave C. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on Jun 18 1999.

• also "fucking the dog and selling puppies"

  Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by Kim G. from Kitchener, ON, Canada on Sep 06 2006.

• also "screwing the pooch and selling the puppies"

  Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by Colin T. on Jan 15 2009.

• to increase the speed at which something operates.

                                                       
  
  Citation from article title, MSNBC, Jacqueline Stenson, May 26, 2009 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to increase.

  Last edited on Oct 08 2009. Submitted by David S. from Seattle, WA, USA on Sep 06 2006.