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red dogs

red dogs is the plural of red dog.

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

Meaning of red dog

Noun

red dog (countable and uncountable, plural red dogs)

  1. (US, countable) A blitz.
  2. (uncountable) The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
    • This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour.1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75
  3. (uncountable) Coal slag.
  4. (informal, uncountable) Prickly heat; miliaria.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.

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Questions about red dogs

What is red dogs the plural of?
Red dogs is the plural of red dog.

Words near red dogs in the dictionary

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  2. red diesel
  3. red dog
  4. red dogged
  5. red dogging
  6. red dogs
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  8. Red Dragon Book
  9. Red Dragons
  10. red drink
  11. red drum

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