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dogged it

dogged it is the simple past and past participle of dog it.

Meaning of dog it

Verb

dog it (third-person singular simple present dogs it, present participle dogging it, simple past and past participle dogged it)

  1. (slang) To underperform; to lag behind; to fail to exert effort.
    • The boss made him do extra cleaning work, because he was caught dogging it on his prior assignment.

Questions about dogged it

What is dogged it the simple past and past participle of?
Dogged it is the simple past and past participle of dog it.

Words near dogged it in the dictionary

  1. dogfur
  2. Dogg
  3. dogge
  4. dogged
  5. dogged around
  6. dogged it
  7. dogged out
  8. dogged up
  9. doggeder
  10. doggedest
  11. doggedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogged it (page history and authors); dog it (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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