Phrase Hound found 292 phrases and 75 compound words that contain dogs. The most common are listed below. Open dogs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 292
- cats and dogsA heavy rain; a large amount of rain.
- hot dogsplural of hot dog: A sausage, typically a frankfurter.
- go to the dogsTo decline or deteriorate shockingly.
- rain cats and dogsTo rain very heavily.
- dogs and catsplural of dog and cat: A team comprising one male and one female, either working as associates or having one as the second-in-command to the other.
- Isle of DogsA peninsula (not a true island) formed by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England.
- Two Dogs
- dogs of warThe destructive capabilities of an army or war force.
- going to the dogspresent participle and gerund of go to the dogs
- gone to the dogspast participle of go to the dogs: To decline or deteriorate shockingly.
- White DogsFormer name of Juguang.
- assistance dogsplural of assistance dog: Synonym of service dog (“dog that assists a person who has a disability”)
- attack dogsplural of attack dog: Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog.
- big dogsplural of big dog: A term of address to a male friend.
- bird dogsplural of bird dog: A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.
- Blue Dogsplural of Blue Dog: A member of the Blue Dog Coalition, founded in 1994, of conservative and moderate members of the Democratic Party.
- Carolina dogsplural of Carolina dog: A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the …
- Chicago dogsplural of Chicago dog: A Chicago-style hot dog
- designer dogsplural of designer dog: A cross-breed dog which has been intentionally bred from two or more recognized dog breeds.
- domestic dogsplural of domestic dog: The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- drug dogsplural of drug dog: A detection dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate illicit substances, such as drugs, which may be carried on a person in their effects.
- feed dogsplural of feed dog: On a sewing machine, the toothed mechanism that uses a forward, down, back, and up motion against the presser foot to advance the fabric through the machine evenly.
- fire dogsThe metal frame in a fireplace, used to hold the logs, or to support the poker and other tools.
- guide dogsplural of guide dog: A dog that is trained to be of assistance to a visually impaired or hearing-impaired person and is thus able to guide them.
- hearing dogsplural of hearing dog: A dog trained to assist the deaf, alerting the deaf person to doorbells, smoke alarms etc.
Compound words 75
- bulldogsplural of bulldog: A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller …
- underdogsplural of underdog: A competitor thought unlikely to win.
- watchdogsplural of watchdog: A guard dog.
- hotdogsplural of hotdog: A sausage, typically a frankfurter.
- sheepdogsplural of sheepdog: Any of various breeds of dog used for herding sheep; an individual of such a breed.
- dogstarAlternative form of Dog Star: A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris A. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf …
- lapdogsplural of lapdog: A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
- bandogsplural of bandog: A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.
- beardogsplural of beardog: Any of the extinct family †Amphicyonidae of large-bodied terrestrial carnivorans.
- birddogsplural of birddog: A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.