dog food
noun [mass noun]
Commercially prepared food for dogs: a can of dog food...
- Gourmet dog food will transform your cantankerous mutt into an obedient show dog.
- They're dog-friendly, and they had a tray there with water and dog food.
- So the problem isn't getting dogs to eat the dog food - it's getting them to stop!
verb [with object] (usually dogfood) informal, chiefly Computing
(Of a company’s staff) use a product or service developed by that company so as to test it before it is made available to customers: it was a great opportunity to dogfood the phones (as noun dogfooding) If you’re writing software intended for other developers then dogfooding makes perfect sense...
- I was definitely "dogfooding" for the apps I built at work.
- We started dogfooding the product when it was only 700 lines of code, and even in that super-simple form, we found it incredibly useful.
- "Unfortunately, because dogfooding is a process exclusively for Google employees, we cannot share specific product details."
Phrases
eat one's own dog food