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working terriers

working terriers is the plural of working terrier.

Meaning of working terrier

Noun

working terrier (plural working terriers)

  1. a terrier bred to hunt a small mammal, such as a badger, fox, raccoon, rat or opossum.
    • A working terrier absolutely must bark when it is the least bit excited or aroused because in earlier times this alerted the hunters to the location of the burrow where the dog had pursued an animal into its den.2008, Stanley Coren, The Modern Dog, page 90

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What is working terriers the plural of?
Working terriers is the plural of working terrier.

Words near working terriers in the dictionary

  1. working someone's butt off
  2. working someone's tail off
  3. working stiff
  4. working stiffs
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  10. working the hole
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