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yellow dogs

yellow dogs is the plural of yellow dog.

Meaning of yellow dog

Noun

yellow dog (plural yellow dogs)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
  2. (Southern US, US, especially) A Carolina dog.
  3. (US, informal) An item or person of low value.
    • If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.1877, Charles White with Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5

Noun capitalized: Yellow Dogs

Yellow Dogs

  1. (plural) plural of Yellow Dog

Questions about yellow dogs

What is yellow dogs the plural of?
Yellow dogs is the plural of yellow dog.
What part of speech is yellow dogs?
Yellow dogs is a noun.

Words near yellow dogs in the dictionary

  1. yellow dog contracts
  2. Yellow Dog Democrat
  3. Yellow Dog Democrats
  4. yellow dog fund
  5. yellow dog funds
  6. yellow dogs
  7. yellow dragon disease
  8. yellow dryad
  9. yellow dryads
  10. yellow dwarf
  11. yellow dwarfs

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