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dogs

UK/dɒɡz//dɔɡz/

dogs is the plural of dog.

dogs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dog.

Noun (1)

dogs pl (plural only)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only, slang) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
    • My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.
  2. (US, plural, plural-only, slang) Toes
    • Time to let the dogs out to play. (While taking off shoes.)
  3. (plural, plural-only, usually) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
    • I lost money at the dogs last night.
  4. (plural, plural-only) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.

Meaning of dog

Noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

  1. The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
    • The dog barked all night long.
  2. Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
    • This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561
    Synonyms:
    canid
  3. (attributive, often) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
    • Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.1908, Dogdom, volume 9, page 337, column 1
  4. (rare, uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
    • Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?
  5. (derogatory, figuratively, slang) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
    • She’s a real dog.
  6. (figuratively, slang) A man, guy, chap.
    • You lucky dog!

See all 36 meanings of dog

Noun (2) capitalized: DOGs

DOGs

  1. (plural) plural of DOG

Words formed from dogs

Phrases with dogs

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Words that rhyme with dogs

Questions about dogs

What does dogs mean?
Dogs means feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
What is dogs the plural of?
Dogs is the plural of dog.
What part of speech is dogs?
Dogs is a noun.
How do you pronounce dogs?
Dogs is pronounced /dɒɡz/ (UK).

Words near dogs in the dictionary

  1. Dogribs
  2. dogrobber
  3. dogrobbers
  4. dogrose
  5. dogroses
  6. dogs
  7. dogs and cats
  8. dogs are barking
  9. dogs around
  10. dogs bark, cats meow
  11. dogs have masters, cats have staff

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dogs (page history and authors); DOGs (page history and authors); 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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