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Definition of dog

dog    Featured Word

noun

  • a friend. Also dawg.
    What's up, dog?
    He's my dog.
                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

    Citation from "Chapter 10", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 4 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 19 2011. Submitted by David Capalungan from Yakima, WA, USA on Sep 14 1997.

  • a method of addressing a person, similar to man and dude. Also spelled dawg.
    Hey dog, could you hand me a napkin?
                                                                                                                                                        

    Citation from "Party Down Company Picnic", Party Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 7 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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    Citation from "You've Got Male", Happy Endings (TV), Season 1 Episode 9 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                              

                        

                                                                                                

    Citation from "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV), Season 6 Episode 9 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                                                          

    Citation from "Chapter 4", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 1 Episode 4 (2009) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by Daylene from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Jun 09 1998.

  • telephone. From Cockney rhyming slang "dog and bone." Current in London's financial services industry.
    Let's get Goldman Sachs on the dog.

    Last edited on Oct 27 1999. Submitted by Joshua R. from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK on Oct 27 1999.

  • an unattractive person.
                                                                                                                                                    

    Citation from "Forget Me Now", Arrested Development (TV, 2005), Season 3 Episode 3 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                    

                                               

    Citation from "Episode 4", Little Britain (TV), Season 3 Episode 4 (2005) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                                                                            

    Citation from "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", Family Guy (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (1999) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 16 2011. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.

  • a hotdog.
    We've got brats and dogs. Which would you like?
    • See more words with the same meaning: food.

    Last edited on Jul 15 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

  • something of poor quality or a poor performer.

    Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

  • a chauvinistic male.

    Last edited on May 12 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on May 12 2010.

  • a morally reprehensible person.
    You dog, you!

    Last edited on Jul 15 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 15 2010.

  • a person.
    You lucky dog!
    You lazy dog.

    Last edited on Jul 17 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 17 2010.

verb

  • to relentless follow.
    Detective Davis dogged the kidnappers until he found their hideout.

    Last edited on Feb 05 1999. Submitted by John v. from Washington, DC, USA on Feb 05 1999.

  • to constantly follow, like an overly loyal pet.

    Last edited on Feb 05 1999. Submitted by John v. from Washington, DC, USA on Feb 05 1999.

  • to criticize or annoy. Also dog on.
    Quit dogging me.
    Quit dogging on me.

    Last edited on Oct 01 2001. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.

  • of a female towards a male, to use sex as a means of getting what she wants.
    That girl is always doggin'.

    Last edited on Dec 22 2010. Submitted by Vid from Dale City, VA, USA on Dec 05 2002.

verb - intransitive

  • to engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place while others are watching, or to watch others engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place.

    Last edited on Aug 11 2012. Submitted by Alecae Alaysia from Nashville, TN, USA on Aug 10 2012.

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Other terms relating to 'dude, person of unspecified gender':

Definitions include: a person who has both street and book knowledge.
Definitions include: to take LSD.
Definitions include: a formidable person.
Definitions include: a person who raps.
Definitions include: alternate spelling of shorty.
Definitions include: an old male.
Definitions include: a person very skilled in a particular area.
Definitions include: a British person.
Definitions include: bastard.
Definitions include: woman.
Definitions include: an elderly person.
Definitions include: to stare at a person in an aggressive way.
Definitions include: a person.
Definitions include: alternate spelling of "dude".
Definitions include: a stand-in name used to represent the everyman.

Other terms relating to 'food':

Definitions include: junk food.
Definitions include: "frozen yogurt".
Definitions include: a biscuit.
Definitions include: penis
Definitions include: a submarine sandwich.
Definitions include: bar food.
Definitions include: an attractive person.
Definitions include: an impressive buffet of food.
Definitions include: food from a restaurant, prepared quickly.
Definitions include: a cigarette.
Definitions include: a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken.
Definitions include: food.
Definitions include: food.
Definitions include: a greeting, similar to "What's going on?" A shortened version of "What's up."
Definitions include: a food item, especially a side dish.

Other terms relating to 'friend, friends':

Definitions include: friend; "dude".
Definitions include: The feeling of really wanting to befriend a stranger or acquaintance.
Definitions include: a young person or child.
Definitions include: colloquial pronunciation of fool.
Definitions include: close companions whose friendship may contain romantic or sexual interest without an official commitment.
Definitions include: "Internet BFF", i.e. "Internet Best Friend(s) Forever".
Definitions include: having a nice body.
Definitions include: anything, in speech.
Definitions include: in agreement with a plan to do something.
Definitions include: a best friend.
Definitions include: Female friend who always needs/demands more attention than anyone else in the group.
Definitions include: a good female friend that is more like a sister.
Definitions include: form of address used between females and between gay men.
Definitions include: a person who is both a friend and an enemy.
Definitions include: a friend or associate.

Other terms relating to 'something of poor quality, bad, sucks':

Definitions include: something very difficult.
Definitions include: a motor vehicle with many mechanical problems.
Definitions include: nonsense
Definitions include: an instance of failure.
Definitions include: something lame.
Definitions include: an event with a displeasing outcome.
Definitions include: Most uses of "shit" also work with "crap", except where noted below.
Definitions include: Pap, or pap smear, is usually used in describing people that aren't liked, in general.
Definitions include: something of poor quality; "piece of crap".
Definitions include: a graffiti mural.
Definitions include: with poor personal hygiene / promiscuous / generally gross.

Other terms relating to 'telephone, phone':

Definitions include: to urinate.
Definitions include: cell phone.
Definitions include: a song.
Definitions include: a handgun.
Definitions include: phone number.
Definitions include: a five pound note.
Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
Definitions include: cell phone.
Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
Definitions include: phone.
Definitions include: very cold.
Definitions include: phone number or digits.
Definitions include: a request for a phone call.
Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)

Other terms relating to 'to annoy, interfere, intrude':

Definitions include: Something hard to find. From the old saying "Needle in a haystack."
Definitions include: to be great, exciting, or fun.
Definitions include: to bring up a subject that was resolved (or should have been resolved) long ago.
Definitions include: to annoy, pester, bother.
Definitions include: to joke around with someone.
Definitions include: unsolicited advertisements sent in bulk via e-mail.
Definitions include: to pester or annoy.
Definitions include: See third wheel.
Definitions include: also a diminutive form of aggro.
Definitions include: a third person participating in an activity with a couple.
Definitions include: a large commotion.
Definitions include: a man with no class.
Definitions include: to affect or bother someone.
Definitions include: to bother, test, annoy, push.
Definitions include: to interfere with a female's attempt to talk to a male or engaging him sexually.

Other terms relating to 'to insult, complain, criticize':

Definitions include: an automobile.
Definitions include: to chastise.
Definitions include: to insult.
Definitions include: to focus negative attention on a person, e.g. by insulting, berating, or generally harassing someone.
Definitions include: to lie to; deceive.
Definitions include: friend; "dude".
Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
Definitions include: to hit, attack.
Definitions include: acronym for "fuck my life."
Definitions include: a disrespectful, rude, or otherwise unpleasant person.
Definitions include: to complain, scold, or nag.
Definitions include: to steal.
Definitions include: to eat voraciously.
Definitions include: an acronym has been invented for "bitch," far after the term entered use: "Beautiful Intellectuals That Cause Hard-ons."
Definitions include: the action of someone "talking shit".

Other terms relating to 'unattractive, ugly person (either gender)':

Definitions include: an ugly face.
Definitions include: a person who is attractive from a distance, but unattractive on closer inspection.
Definitions include: acronym for "funny looking kid", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
Definitions include: an unattractive person.
Definitions include: See slumpbuster.
Definitions include: n. from the concept of putting a bag over the head of someone ugly.
Definitions include: A girl so ugly she looks like she got hit with a shovel.
Definitions include: a very ugly person.
Definitions include: "message understood."
Definitions include: an unattractive person from the Bush, i.e. the country-side of Australia.
Definitions include: someone who is even uglier than a bagger.
Definitions include: good tasting.
Definitions include: a person, generally a woman, who has an attractive body, but an ugly face.
Definitions include: an unattractive female or one with a bad reputation.
Definitions include: an ugly person.

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Other terms relating to 'dog':

Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
Definitions include: be in serious trouble.
Definitions include: the best at something; "the man".
Definitions include: to start drinking alcohol again in the morning to avoid feeling hung-over.
Definitions include: raining hard.
Definitions include: one of many apocryphal sex "moves".
Definitions include: very crazy.
Definitions include: alternate spelling of dog.
Definitions include: a mess, from "dog's breakfast."
Definitions include: daughter, literally dear daughter.
Definitions include: to engage in an unproductive activity; waste time.
Definitions include: a sales pitch.
Definitions include: you're in big trouble.
Definitions include: to mark one's place in a book by folding down the corner of the page.
Definitions include: extremely ugly, hideous. Ugly as a dog.

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