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dog-food

dog-food is the alternative form of dog food.

Meaning of dog food

Noun (1)

dog food (countable and uncountable, plural dog foods)

  1. Food eaten by or appropriate for dogs in general, whether wild or domesticated.
  2. Food for domesticated dogs.
  3. Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.
  4. (slang) Synonym of dog meat (“dead person”).
    • Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog food now!
    Synonyms:
    dog meat
  5. (slang) Heroin, typically the non-black tar type.

Noun (2)

dog food (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, slang) public display of affection, especially from the perspective of a lonely, single person.

Forms of dog-food

pluraldog-foods

Questions about dog-food

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

Words near dog-food in the dictionary

  1. dog-fights
  2. dog-fish
  3. dog-fishes
  4. dog-flea model
  5. dog-flea models
  6. dog-food
  7. dog-foods
  8. dog-fox
  9. dog-foxes
  10. dog-friendlier
  11. dog-friendliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-food (page history and authors); dog food (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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