dognoun [ C ]
uk/dɒɡ/us/dɑːɡ/dog noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
A1 a common animal with four legs, especially kept by people as a pet or to hunt or guard things:
my pet dog
wild dogs
dog food
We could hear dogs barking in the distance.
More examples
- I grabbed the dog by the collar and dragged it out of the room.
- A dog lay under the table, gnawing on a bone.
- Steve's gone out to walk the dogs.
- The security guards set their dogs on the intruders.
- Please keep your dog on a lead when on the beach.
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Canines (dogs)
- Afghan hound
- Alsatian
- basset hound
- beagle
- bird dog
- doggy
- fox terrier
- foxhound
- German shepherd
- golden retriever
- mongrel
- mutt
- Pekinese
- pit bull terrier
- pooch
- St Bernard
- terrier
- tracker dog
- vixen
- whelp
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dog noun [ C ] (PERSON)
slang a man who is unpleasant or not to be trusted:
He tried to steal my money, the dirty dog.
offensive a woman who is not attractive
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Kinds of men
- a bit of rough idiom
- a man's man idiom
- adult
- alpha male
- beta male
- gaffer
- gay
- geezer
- gent
- gentleman
- ladies' man
- mac
- male chauvinist
- MCP
- medallion man
- sister under the skin idiom
- spiv
- sugar daddy
- suit
- suitor
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Unpleasant men
Unpleasant women
Idiom(s)
a dog in the manger
a dog's breakfast
the dog's bollocks
a dog's life
done up/dressed up like a dog's dinner
every dog has its day
give a dog a bad name
go to the dogs
let sleeping dogs lie
put on the dog
why keep a dog and bark yourself?
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
dogverb [ T ]
uk/dɒɡ/us/dɑːɡ/-gg-dog verb [ T ] (FOLLOW)
to follow someone closely and continuously:
Reporters dogged him for answers.
See also
dogged
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Pursuing
- be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
- be on sb's tail idiom
- bear
- bear down on sb/sth
- bring
- bring up the rear idiom
- convoy
- heel
- hot
- in hot pursuit idiom
- on the scent idiom
- pursue
- pursuer
- pursuit
- run
- scent
- stalk
- tag
- tailgate
- track
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dog verb [ T ] (PROBLEM)
to cause difficulties:
Technical problems dogged our trip from the outset.
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Inconvenience
- a pain (in the neck) idiom
- a pain in the arse/backside idiom
- aggravation
- aggro
- awkward
- bore
- disturbance
- drag
- hassle
- have fun and games idiom
- imposition
- inconvenience
- inconvenient
- put sb out
- put yourself out
- rigmarole
- snag
- some
- storm
- tempest
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