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road dawg

road dawg is the eye dialect spelling of road dog.

Meaning of road dog

Noun

road dog (plural road dogs)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A trusted friend.
    • "It's a big laydown, so a few of my old road dogs and me been bustin' moves and doin' doors on some serious assholes."2002, Stephen J. Cannell, The Viking Funeral (Shane Scully; 2), Allen & Unwin, →ISBN

Forms of road dawg

pluralroad dawgs

Questions about road dawg

What is road dawg the eye dialect spelling of?
Road dawg is the eye dialect spelling of road dog.

Words near road dawg in the dictionary

  1. road concurrencies
  2. road concurrency
  3. road crew
  4. road crews
  5. road cycling
  6. road dawg
  7. road dawgs
  8. road diet
  9. road diets
  10. road dog
  11. road dogs

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