red dog

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Etymology

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Noun

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red dog (countable and uncountable, plural red dogs)

  1. (countable, US, American football) A blitz.
  2. (uncountable) The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
    • 1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread[1], New York: Macmillan, page 75:
      This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour.
  3. (uncountable) Coal slag.
  4. (uncountable, informal) Prickly heat; miliaria.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ dog.

Verb

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red dog (third-person singular simple present red dogs, present participle red dogging, simple past and past participle red dogged)

  1. (US, American football) To blitz.

Proper noun

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red dog

  1. A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.

Anagrams

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