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▸ noun: The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
▸ noun: Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
▸ noun: (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
▸ noun: A person:
▸ noun: (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
▸ noun: (slang) A man, guy, chap.
▸ noun: (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
▸ noun: (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
▸ noun: A mechanical device or support:
▸ noun: Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
▸ noun: A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
▸ noun: A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
▸ noun: (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
▸ noun: (poker slang) An underdog.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot.
▸ noun: (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
▸ noun: One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
▸ noun: (informal) Something that performs poorly.
▸ noun: (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
▸ noun: (firearms, archaic) A cock, as of a gun.
▸ noun: (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
▸ verb: (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
▸ verb: (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To criticize.
▸ verb: (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
▸ adjective: (slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.
▸ noun: (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.
▸ noun: (humorous) The language supposedly spoken by dogs
▸ noun: The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
▸ noun: (Geordie, slang) Newcastle Brown Ale
▸ noun: (astronomy, with definite article) The Dog Star; Sirius.
▸ noun: Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
▸ noun: Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
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golden retriever,
poodle,
beagle,
dachshund,
bulldog,
cocker spaniel,
boxer,
pit bull,
greyhound,
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