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hound dog

[hound dawg, dog] / ˈhaʊnd ˌdɔg, ˌdɒg /


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Last summer I found a criminally cute hound dog who checked at least one of the boxes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2024

Steve is the sensible, sensitive mate who evens us out as opposed to the kicked hound dog who waits by the door for his mistress.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

Ten years of my beloved late hound dog are captured there.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2023

Somebody who ain't nothin' but a hound dog has made off with an Elvis Presley bust from a Central Illinois saloon.

From Fox News • Oct. 28, 2021

In every way that he could, Rowdy was showing those monkeys that he was the friendliest hound dog in the world.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls