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bottom dog

bottom dog noun: an underdog (someone at a disadvantage).

Noun

bottom dog (plural bottom dogs)

  1. An underdog (someone at a disadvantage).
    • There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - "kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs", according to one NUR member.2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38
    Antonyms:
    top dog

Antonyms of bottom dog

Forms of bottom dog

pluralbottom dogs

Questions about bottom dog

What does bottom dog mean?
Bottom dog means an underdog (someone at a disadvantage).
What part of speech is bottom dog?
Bottom dog is a noun.
What is the plural of bottom dog?
The plural of bottom dog is bottom dogs.

Words near bottom dog in the dictionary

  1. bottom brackets
  2. bottom burp
  3. bottom burps
  4. bottom dead center
  5. bottom disease
  6. bottom dog
  7. bottom dogs
  8. bottom dollar
  9. bottom dollars
  10. bottom drawer
  11. bottom drawer syndrome

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