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road dog

road dog noun: a trusted friend.

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
    • After she lied about the bullet going through the apartment to the police, I moved out and stayed with my road dog.2013, Roger Griffin, Transgressions: How One Man Survived Big Intercity Corruption, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 217

Forms of road dog

pluralroad dogs
alternative formroad dawg

Questions about road dog

What does road dog mean?
Road dog means a trusted friend.
What part of speech is road dog?
Road dog is a noun.
What is the plural of road dog?
The plural of road dog is road dogs.

Words near road dog in the dictionary

  1. road cycling
  2. road dawg
  3. road dawgs
  4. road diet
  5. road diets
  6. road dog
  7. road dogs
  8. road event
  9. road events
  10. road film
  11. road films

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