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space dog

space dog is the alternative form of spacedog.

Meaning of spacedog

Noun

spacedog (plural spacedogs)

  1. A dog who travels in outer space.
    • 'Love me, love my dog,' Dr Hunter said. 'A woman's best friend.' Timmy, Snowy, Jumble, Lassie, Greyfriars Bobby. Everyone's best friend. Except for poor Laika, the spacedog, who was no one's friend.2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, Toronto, O.N.: Anchor Canada, published 2009, page 48
  2. A person experienced in space travel.
    • But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn.... […]1980 April, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, Asimov's Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97
    Synonyms:
    spacehound

Forms of space dog

pluralspace dogs

Questions about space dog

What is space dog the alternative form of?
Space dog is the alternative form of spacedog.

Words near space dog in the dictionary

  1. space defense
  2. space defenses
  3. space disco
  4. space docking
  5. space dockings
  6. space dog
  7. space dogs
  8. space dot
  9. space dots
  10. space drive
  11. space drives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: space dog (page history and authors); spacedog (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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