2mass noun A small check pattern with notched corners suggestive of a canine tooth, used in cloth for jackets and suits.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  She squealed dramatically and grabbed the sleeve of Theo's dog-tooth jacket, her eyeballs seeming suddenly to bulge at the drama of it all.
 -  Close behind the red-jacketed men came stout ladies in dog-tooth hacking jackets.
 -  They wore bumster trousers in black-and-white dog-tooth, pirate shirts, white boots and gymslips.