Definition of dognap in English:
dognap
verbdognapping, dognaps, dognapped ˈdɒɡnapˈdäɡnap
[with object]informal Steal (a dog), especially in order to sell it.
Lassie had been dognapped by a shady businessman
Example sentencesExamples
- I never noticed a thing until my girl was dognapped last week (totally my fault; I tied her up outside a store as I always did in San Francisco, but this is Los Angeles).
- The film is a mix of live action and computer animation, in which Garfield reluctantly adopts the role of hero-in-training when Odie is dognapped by a ruthless TV host.
- The tension between the species comes to a head when the Brody family dog is kid - er, dognapped.
- The owner of a valuable prize Shih-tzu commissions the lads to dognap another champion Shih-tzu which belongs to his ex-lover and biggest rival.
- I dognapped the dog though.
- If you act too weird, some sleazy carny operator's liable to try to dognap you and make you perform for dog bones.
- After Odie is dognapped, Garfield sets out on a journey to find his long-lost canine cohort.
- I began pacing, worried that its owner might wander by in the midst of what he thought was a casual late-afternoon walk with his ‘Liberian Rusky’ and seeing us, accuse us of dognapping.
- It made me very mad when news channel skipped my brother's story for some rich person's dog who was dognapped.
Derivatives
noun
informal He had become famous in the area as a serial dognapper.
Example sentencesExamples
- Going against her father's wishes in paying her dog's ransom, she personally delivers the sum to the dognappers' headquarters in Whitechapel.
- Before she put the blame on a band of dognappers, she should've considered the inherited traits of her beloved bundle of white.
- The Judge and his children are either not home or they were occupied by other things, so they don't notice this wretched dognapper.
- Their manifesto included an announcement that they would resort to causing false fire alarms in an effort to bring the dognappers to their knees.