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dog-eat-dog

dog-eat-dog is the alternative form of dog eat dog.

Meaning of dog eat dog

Adjective

dog eat dog (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Ruthlessly acquisitive or competitive; of a business or other set of circumstances, trying to succeed at the expense of other people.
    • dog-eat-dog world

Questions about dog-eat-dog

What is dog-eat-dog the alternative form of?
Dog-eat-dog is the alternative form of dog eat dog.

Words near dog-eat-dog in the dictionary

  1. dog-ear
  2. dog-eared
  3. dog-earedness
  4. dog-earing
  5. dog-ears
  6. dog-eat-dog
  7. dog-egg
  8. dog-end
  9. dog-ends
  10. dog-faced baboon
  11. dog-faced baboons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-eat-dog (page history and authors); dog eat dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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