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red dog en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, countable) A blitz.
  2. (uncountable) The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
    • This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour. 1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75:
  3. (uncountable) Coal slag.
  4. (informal, uncountable) Prickly heat; miliaria.
  5. (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.

Forms

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red dogs Number=Plur lexicographic

red dog en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.

red dog en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US) To blitz.

Forms

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red dogging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
red dogs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
red dogged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
red dogged Tense=Past lexicographic