dog

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
3. (countable, uncountable)A mammal of the family Canidae:

   “The dog barked all night long.”

   “[…] I beg again to state, in my humility, that I am Only a Dog. Such a little dog too. […] I am very white, very woolly, very pretty indeed; covered all over with snowy curls, and having two bright black eyes and a black shiny tip to my nose like patent leather.”

   “The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.”

   “When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A mammal of the family Canidae:

   “This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).”

5. (attributive, countable, often, uncountable)A mammal of the family Canidae:

   “Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.”

   “Firstly, he was there to encourage and assist the hounds (a scratch pack – mostly dog-hounds drafted from fox-hound kennels because they were over-sized) […]”

6. (uncountable)The meat of this animal, eaten as food.

   “Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?”

7. (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A person:

   “She’s a real dog.”

8. (countable, slang, uncountable)A person:

   “You lucky dog!”

9. (countable, derogatory, uncountable)A person:

   “Come back and fight, you dogs!”

   “You dirty dog.”

   “Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.”

   “And Hazael ſaid, But what, is thy ſeruant a dogge, that he ſhould doe this great thing?”

   “[A]t last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.”

10. (countable, slang, uncountable)A person:

    “DJ Paul is a dog; one you do not trust.”

11. (countable, uncountable)A mechanical device or support:

    “Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw's dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum.”

12. (countable, uncountable)A mechanical device or support:
13. (countable, uncountable)A mechanical device or support:

    “The dogs were too hot to touch.”

    “In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.”

14. (countable, historical, uncountable)A mechanical device or support:
15. (countable, uncountable)The eighteenth Lenormand card.
16. (countable, uncountable)A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.

    “Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]”

17. (countable, slang, uncountable)An underdog.
18. (countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable)Foot; toe.

    “My dogs are barking!”

    “You look good in those shoes with your dogs out!”

19. (Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable)(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

    “My dog is dead.”

20. (countable, uncountable)One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
21. (countable, informal, uncountable)Something that performs poorly.

    “He gives his dog-Mota or dog-Fiji in exchange for Pigeon English.”

    “That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.”

22. (countable, informal, uncountable)Something that performs poorly.

    “Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.”

    “"When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog," Chase said.”

23. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A cock, as of a gun.

    “To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.”

24. (countable, uncountable)A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.

    “Hmm, see the girl with the red dress on She can do the dog all night long.”

    “Just like the dog but not so low Like the hully gully but not so slow Now baby swim, baby do the swim.”

    “We had a lovely dance—luckily it was a slow number. I don't think Mr. Lincoln would have been up to the dog or a fast twist.”

25. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.

verb

1. (transitive)To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. (transitive)To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

   “The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.”

   “[…] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.”

   “‘Notwithstanding Mr Maxwell’s acknowledged abilities and energy, he is not in our opinion a person who can be relied upon to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company.’ These words, from the conclusion of the interim report by two Department of Trade inspectors in 1970, were to dog Maxwell for the rest of his business career.”

   “But this is not an Athletic that ever looks comfortable at the back – a criticism that has often dogged Marcelo Bielsa's sides.”

   “Yet Google, which was founded in 1998, is dogged by the perception that its best days are behind it.”

3. (transitive)To fasten a hatch securely.

   “It is very important to dog down these hatches.”

4. (intransitive)To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

   “I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.”

   “Lightning [is a] burst of charged particles that lights up the sky and allows onlookers to see who's dogging in the bushes without using a flashlight.”

5. (intransitive, transitive)To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

   “A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.”

6. (slang, transitive)To criticize.

   “Harmon Rabb (David James Elliott): Are you dogging Harm's special meatless meatloaf? Sarah MacKenzie (Catherine Bell): Let's put it this way. If you were to make the Harmon Special on this ship, they'd have to unload it with the toxic waste.”

7. (transitive)To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

   “A. We never stood 4 to 8 p.m. watches, sir. We dogged our watches. Q. I suppose that is 6 to 8 p.m., then; it is a little indistinct. I mean the second dog watch.”

   “Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]”

adj

1. (not-comparable, slang)Of inferior quality; very bad.

   “Oh man, this game is absolutely dog!”

name

1. (humorous)The language supposedly spoken by dogs

   “Shakespeare could understand Human, the language used by people, as well as Dog, the telepathic speech with which canines communicated with each other.”

   “Lara's biggest frustration was that she could only speak one language – her native tongue of Dog. She would have loved to learn to speak Human but this was beyond the spy-training programme.”

   “I blinked. “I thought you were talking to Blake about a dog.” “Cath,” Jake said, “I'm trying to be more open about this. Didn't you just say that you could talk to animals?” The realization dawned on me. “I don't speak Dog very well, but it's worth a try.””

2. The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
3. (Geordie, slang)Newcastle Brown Ale

   “This article celebrates the fine city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, situated in northeast England, and its gentle inhabitants, the Geordies. […] Oh yes. Nothing like a pint of dog to establish oneself as a suave sophisticate.”

   “This popularity has led to another nickname for the beer in its local market: the Dog. Pubgoers in the Northeast often refer to their nightly trip to the pub as “going out to walk the dog.” And because Newcastle Brown Ale is often the beer they are seeking, the company has launched a whole new advertising campaign referring to its beer as "the Dog."”

4. (with-definite-article)The Dog Star; Sirius.

   “But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.”