26984 words

dogs

14 definitions • 14 examples
1
a common animal with four legs, especially kept by people as a pet or to hunt or guard things:

Examples:

my pet dog
wild dogs
We could hear dogs barking in the distance.
2
a man who is unpleasant or not to be trusted:

Examples:

dirty dog He tried to steal my money, the dirty dog.
3
an offensive word for an ugly person, especially a woman
4
to follow someone closely and continuously:

Examples:

5
to cause difficulties:

Examples:

Technical problems dogged our trip from the outset.
6
an animal with four legs, commonly kept as a pet, and sometimes used to guard things
7
a person of a stated type:

Examples:

You won $1000? You lucky dog!
8
to follow someone closely and continually:

Examples:

The scandal seems likely to dog him for months to come.
9
an investment, company, or product that will probably fail
10
a product that has a small share of a market that has a low rate of growth
11
a situation in which competitors are willing to harm each other in order to be successful:

Examples:

It is dog eat dog on Las Vegas's world-famous Strip as huge casino complexes compete for attention.
The fast-growing telecom industry was a dog-eat-dog world where firms were either looking to expand or ripe for takeover.
12
if a company eats its own dog food, it uses the products that it makes in its own business activities, rather than using products made by other companies:

Examples:

The company, which makes high-tech equipment, could not have grown as fast as it has without eating lots of its own dog food.
13
to get into a very bad situation:

Examples:

The economy seems to be going to the dogs.
Signs of a global recession inevitably conjure up thoughts of the last time we went to hell in a handbasket: the Great Depression of the 1930s.
14
used to say that a plan will fail

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