dawg

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UK/dɔːɡ/US/dɔɡ/US, cot caught merger/dɑɡ/Australia, British, Southern, Standard/doːɡ/

noun

Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.

“Sup, dawg?”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

dawg1

noundawg (plural dawgs)

plural dawgs

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of dog.

    That dawg won't hunt.

  2. USslangTerm of address for a close, usually male, friend.

    Sup, dawg?

    4 more examples

    “Wow. What do you know? Huh. That was easy.” “Totes malotes, dawg.” “Just kind of hard to believe, you know?” “Believe it, Morty. And once again, I'm flying away with everything I can carry, and the Zigerions got nothing of mine.”

    2014 January 13, Tom Kauffman, “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” (11:23 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland)

    All up in my phone, lookin' at pictures from the other night / She gon' be upset if she keep scrollin' to the left, dawg

    2014, “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”, performed by Drake

    I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!

    2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings

    “Totes malotes, dawg,” Abby shot me with a finger-gun. “And trust me, I'm amazing at it, just like everything else. So, order the pizza, Sandy, and let's get this show on the road. This is going to be f-u-u-u-u-u-u-n.”

    2019 December 8, K. M. Bishop, Fake It For Me, K. M. Bishop

    Synonyms: babber, billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy, butty

DAWG2

nounDAWG (plural DAWGs)

plural DAWGs

  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of directed acyclic word graph.

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APA

dawg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dawg

MLA

“dawg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dawg. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dawg,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dawg.

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