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dawg en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /dɔɡ/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /dɑɡ/ (cot-caught-merger)
  • /doːɡ/ (Australia)
  • /dɔːɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
    alt of dog
    • That dawg won't hunt.
  2. (US, slang) Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.
    • I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg! 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
    • “Totes malotes, dawg,” Abby shot me with a finger-gun. “And trust me, I'm amazing at it, just like everything else. So, order the pizza, Sandy, and let's get this show on the road. This is going to be f-u-u-u-u-u-u-n.” 2019 December 8, K. M. Bishop, Fake It For Me, K. M. Bishop:
    • “Wow. What do you know? Huh. That was easy.” “Totes malotes, dawg.” “Just kind of hard to believe, you know?” “Believe it, Morty. And once again, I'm flying away with everything I can carry, and the Zigerions got nothing of mine.” 2014 January 13, Tom Kauffman, “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” (11:23 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):
    • All up in my phone, lookin' at pictures from the other night / She gon' be upset if she keep scrollin' to the left, dawg 2014, “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”, performed by Drake:
    • Sup, dawg?

Forms

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Deriveds

homedawg · road dawg

Synonyms

marrow · chuck · geezer · pal · geez · companion · shag · sport · tovarish · crony · cove · cobber · fam · gink · buddy · mucker · matey · peeps · old bean · chum · lover · comrade · cock · fettler · chaver · dude · wantok · china · homie · homeskillet · butty · mate · babber · friend · bredrin · cocker · pardner · buddo · bruv · duck · punk · compadre · good old boy · dawg · bud · kith · surry · billy