dogfoodv.
/ˈdɒɡfuːd/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌfud/, /ˈdɑɡˌfud/ Computing slang.
1. intransitive. Of a company or its employees: to use a product or service developed by the company, as a means of testing it before it is made available to customers.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > try experiments or make experiment [verb (intransitive)]
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to try conclusions1601
to give the adventure1607
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experimentalize1800
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dogfood1996
1996 Computer Reseller News 3 June 94 Visual C++ 4.1 does look like the product of one great mind that appreciates beauty and balance and also has an absolute love of software development. This team dogfoods like no one else.
2011 @mahemoff 12 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Sept. 2020) GitHub guys are dogfooding all day long, you can rely on their UI upgrades to work nicely and the newest doesn't disappoint.
2020 sharein.com 27 Apr. (blog, accesssed 25 Sept. 2020) It's fair to say that we've been dogfooding big time.
2. transitive. Of a company or its employees: to use (a product or service) developed by the company, as a means of testing it before it is made available to customers.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > make experiment of or with [verb (transitive)] > make trial run of
road test1890
dry-run1949
war-game1981
dogfood1997
the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)]
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provea1200
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assay1330
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essay1484
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dogfood1997
1997 Software Devel. Feb. 46/3 We highly recommend ‘dog-fooding’ the project.
2006 M. Tulloch in W. R. Stanek Introducing Microsoft Windows Vista iv. 48 I'm definitely switching to Internet Explorer 7 on Vista as my news aggregator—once I finish ‘dogfooding’ the beta versions!
2020 @mrtcropper 24 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Oct. 2020) Starting to get real people..using our new feature over the course of the next week. We dogfooded it over the last month and it went really well.
Derivatives
ˈdogˌfooder n. an employee who uses a product or service developed by the company he or she works for, as a means of testing it before it is made available to customers.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > one who or that which tests
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dogfooder2003
the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > test of materials or equipment > of machinery or software by developer > one who
alpha-tester1982
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2003 Fast Company Oct. 86/2 The company ran weekly surveys of its dog fooders.
2009 @cuwaters 15 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Sept. 2020) It's taken literally 3 hours to get to the 50% mark of the install of a work beta today. Some days being a dogfooder suxx.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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