dogfood

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verb

To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.

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Meanings

verbdogfood (third-person singular simple present dogfoods, present participle dogfooding, simple past and past participle dogfooded)

present singular third person dogfoods · participle present dogfooding · participle past dogfooded · past dogfooded · alternative dog food · alternative dog-food

  1. slangtransitivecomputingTo eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.

    We're dog-fooding that release now, in three-weekly sprints.

    2012, Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 259
noundogfood (countable and uncountable, plural dogfoods)

plural dogfoods · alternative dog food · alternative dog-food

  1. USalternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of dog food.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
eat one's own dog food

Origin

From dog + food.

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Cite this entry
APA

dogfood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogfood

MLA

“dogfood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogfood. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogfood,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogfood.

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