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sniffer dogs

sniffer dogs is the plural of sniffer dog.

Meaning of sniffer dog

Noun

sniffer dog (plural sniffer dogs)

  1. A police dog trained to sniff out illegal goods such as drugs or explosives.
    • Network Rail has introduced sniffer dogs to try to reduce the theft of signalling cables in the North West.2022 March 9, “Network News: Sniffer dogs hired in fight to combat metal thefts in North West”, in RAIL, number 952, page 18
    Synonyms:
    detection dog

Questions about sniffer dogs

What is sniffer dogs the plural of?
Sniffer dogs is the plural of sniffer dog.

Words near sniffer dogs in the dictionary

  1. sniffed up
  2. Sniffen
  3. Sniffens
  4. sniffer
  5. sniffer dog
  6. sniffer dogs
  7. sniffer plane
  8. sniffer planes
  9. sniffers
  10. sniffest
  11. sniffeth

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