单词 | red dog |
释义 | red dogn. 1. U.S. A fraudulent or unreliable bank issuing currency without sufficient capital. Also: a banknote issued by such a bank; fraudulent or worthless currency. Chiefly attributive designating such a bank or banknote. Now historical. Cf. wild cat n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank merchant bank1620 land-bank1696 private bank1696 paper bankc1720 national bank1736 bank of circulation1767 bank of deposit1767 corporate bank1780 state bank1791 branch bank1796 reserve bank1816 investment bank1824 bank of issue1831 commercial bank1838 red dog1838 wild cat1838 central bank1841 national bank1864 investment house1878 issue house1878 clearing-bank1883 issuing house1890 member bank1914 custodian1915 merchant banker1924 Swiss bank1949 development bank1950 Transcash1982 telephone bank1985 bancassurer1991 1838 N.Y. Advertiser & Express 21 Apr. 1/4 Aptly enough are these banks called ‘Wild Cat’ and ‘Red Dog’. 1841 Spirit of Times 13 Nov. 438/1 We merely ask for our own private information, because we would exchange some of it for 20 per cent, and give you a little Michigan Wild Cat, or some of the very handsome Red Dog, money, we have in these parts. 1863 Merchants' Mag. Jan. 32 The frequently worthless issues of the State of Maine,..the shinplasters of Michigan,..the red-dogs of Indiana and Nebraska..are mixed indiscriminately with the par currency of New York and Boston. 1913 Forum June 661 Many of the early State banks..issued notes, regardless of their ability to pay or of any plan for redemption. They were called ‘wild cat’ and ‘red dog’ banks. 1941 N.Y. Herald 4 Dec. 2/1 Two more banks stopped redeeming yesterday in Wall street—the Commercial Bank, a safety fund—and the Whitestown, a red dog. 2001 D. Rottenberg Man who made Wall St. iii. 36 They paid for this merchandise with paper notes issued by their home banks—the ‘red dog’ money of Michigan, the ‘wild cat’ money of Mississippi, and the ‘canal scrip’ of Indiana. 2. The dhole or wild dog of Asia, Cuon alpinus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Cuon (dhole) dhole1824 serigala1849 red dog1862 hunting dog1866 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 528/2 The name Dhole is extended to some other very similar species or varieties, natives of Ceylon, Nepaul, and other parts of the East, to which the common name Red Dogs has been sometimes applied. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 178 ‘What moves?’ said Phao... ‘The dhole, the dhole of the Dekkan—Red Dog, the Killer!’ 1957 P. J. Darlington Zoogeogr. vi. 394 Cuon (the Dhole or Red Dog), widely distributed in southern and eastern Asia. 1984 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 15 192 (table) Cuon alpinus. Dhole or red dog. 3. U.S. The lowest grade of flour produced by milling, used chiefly for animal feed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > inferior flour garnela1752 ship-stuff1793 batch-flour1862 stub-tail1867 red dog1880 1880 Chicago Tribune 12 June 10/6 This coarse ‘Red Dog’..is wholly undigested by the stomach. 1931 Hearings U.S. Congress House Comm. Ways & Means 131 That would probably include ‘red dog’ flour, which is a very low grade flour which is considered feed. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Feb. 14/1 ‘Red dog’ is fine bran particles and small quantities of wheat flour. 1989 R. Hansen Nebraska Stories 5 The top inches of snow and prairie soil were being sucked up and stirred like the dirty flour that was called red dog. 4. A card game, esp. (a) one in which each player bets that his or her hand contains a card of the same suit and a higher rank than the top card of the stock; (b) a type of stud poker. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > varieties of vaunt1598 brag1734 draw poker1847 penny ante1855 freeze-out1856 draw1857 straight poker1864 stud poker1864 mistigris1875 highball1878 whisky-poker1878 stud-horse poker1881 stud horse1882 stud1884 showdown poker1892 show poker1895 red dog1919 showdown1927 strip-poker1929 manilla1930 Hold 'Em1964 Texas Hold 'Em1968 pai gow poker1985 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1919 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 17 Oct. 25/2 Winnings in poker, red dog, or even the low brow ‘rummy’ are taxable under the State Income tax, and must help sustain the State's first official ‘kitty’. 1934 Webster Red dog... 3. a. A game in which players hold each five cards and bet, for a pool, that they hold a higher card in the same suit than the top card of the stock. b. A variety of stud poker played with seven cards, the first two and the last one being dealt face down, in which all buried red cards are wild. 1945 A. A. Ostrow Compl. Card Player 47 (heading) Red Dog (Also known as high-card pool). 1945 A. A. Ostrow Compl. Card Player 48 Six-Spot Red Dog... In this variant of red dog each player receives 3 cards. 1974 Hoyle's Mod. Encycl. Card Games 289 Despite its simplicity, red dog can build up to high stakes. 2002 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 30 Nov. 4 You joined the Royal Navy to see the world but right now you are going blind with three-card brag, rolling the dice and playing Red Dog for matchsticks with tattered cards on a battered MDF table. 5. U.S. regional (chiefly Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia). A by-product of coal mining consisting of ash and other waste material, having a reddish colour and used esp. as a road surface. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust > specific type culm1736 red dog1922 1922 Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent 27 Oct. 1/6 Heavier material than ‘red dog’ will be procured for filler in the worst places. 1948 E. Rosskam & L. Rosskam Towboat River 243 It was a red-dog road, kinda rough to walk on. 1976 Washington Post 22 Aug. c1/2 Red dog is combined with gravel and used to make parking lots. 2007 Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) (Nexis) 2 Apr. 1 Uncle Jiggs spent days hauling red dog and shale to shore up his lane. 6. American Football. A play in which the linebackers or defensive backs rush the quarterback; = blitz n. c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1950 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. iii. 2/4 Chicago's pass defenders aren't the best in the league, but the team makes up that deficiency by constantly pulling the ‘red dog’. That is to say, when the situation calls for a pass, the three Bear linebackers shoot the gap to rush the passer. 1958 J. King Inside Football 202 The quarterback [is]..rushed by..different linemen in different red-dog situations. 1972 Washington Post 24 Dec. e1/3 They (the Steelers) were on some kind of blitz or red-dog and I got outside the rush. 2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Feb. 16/2 Think in terms of the button-hook, the down-and-out, the draw and the red dog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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