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View synonyms for hound dog

hound dog

[ hound dawg, dog ]

noun

  1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Dialect. hound 1( def 1 ).
  2. Hound Dog, Military. a jet-propelled air-to-ground missile designed to be launched from B-52 aircraft and having nuclear capability.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hound dog1

An Americanism dating back to 1640–50
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Example Sentences

There isn't much left of me but hound dog, but even a hound dog will bite if you kick him hard enough.

It was the voice of a hound dog—not so awful loud, but clear and mellow and tuneful, and carried to us on the wind.

The hound-dog came up and sat down to kick a patch of flea-invaded territory which lay behind his left ear.

Suddenly a big hound dog that had crept up behind a near-by wagon roared his challenge and rushed the cat.

In fifty years breeding from the best, these dogs are all that are needed in a hound dog.

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