police dog
police dog noun: a dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.
Noun
police dog (plural police dogs)
- A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.
- A man who attacked three police officers and a police dog at Nottingham on April 4 has pleaded guilty to two counts of actual bodily harm, assault with intent to resist arrest, assault of an emergency worker, possession of a bladed article, possession of an offensive weapon, and causing unnecessary...2020 April 22, “Network News: Man attacks BTP officers after being refused travel”, in Rail, page 11
- Synonyms:
- K-9 unit, service dog
- Synonym of German shepherd.
- Finding myself, the other day, in New London, Conn., the thought occurred that it would be a good time to pay a visit to my old friend, Henri I. Baer whose kennel of police dogs (German shepherd dogs) at East Killingly, Conn., was only an hour or so away.1917, Dogdom: Monthly - Volume 18, page 596
- For instance, we will take a police dog, and no doubt you are all aware, as I am, of the fact that the police or German shepherd is one of the hardest dogs that we have to treat.1926, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Volumel 69
- Synonyms:
- German shepherd
police dog meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian
police dog in Tamil
- பொலிசுநாய்
police dog in Arabic
- trained dog for police work
- كَلْب بُولِيسِيّ kalb būlīsiyy
police dog in Malay
- trained dog for police work
- anjing polis
police dog in Indonesian
- trained dog for police work
- anjing polisi
More languagesFewer languages
- police dog in Persian
- سگ پلیس
- police dog in Vietnamese
- cảnh khuyển
Examples of police dog in a sentence
- Contrary to popular opintion, the shepherd or police dog has not been crossed with the wolf, and has none of the qualities of such a mongrel.1930 March, Stephen Sherman, “Was Your Dog Once A Wolf”, in Popular Science Monthly, page 57:
- Unfortunately, to meet this demand for “German police dogs” too many puppies were bred indiscriminately and the breed's reputation suffered.2016, Janet Vorwald Dohner, Farm Dogs: A Comprehensive Breed Guide to 93 Guardians, Herders, Terriers, and other Canine Working Partners...
Synonyms of police dog
Forms of police dog
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Questions about police dog
- What does police dog mean?
- Police dog means a dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.
- What is police dog in Tamil?
- Police dog in Tamil is பொலிசுநாய். See Police dog meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use police dog in a sentence?
- Contrary to popular opintion, the shepherd or police dog has not been crossed with the wolf, and has none of the qualities of such a mongrel.
- What part of speech is police dog?
- Police dog is a noun.
- What is the plural of police dog?
- The plural of police dog is police dogs.
Words near police dog in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: police dog (page history and authors); police dog (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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