hound-dog

present singular third person hound-dogs · participle present hound-dogging · participle past hound-dogged · past hound-dogged · alternative hounddog

1. intransitiveslangtransitiveuncommonTo aggressively, relentlessly, or single-mindedly pursue something, often a person for romantic or sexual interest.

   "Oh, nothing at all. I’ve been hounddogging this mob for what, four, five years?"

   1985, William Diehl, Hooligans, page 27

   4 more examples

   Taylor denied that McCann asked where he was supposed to turn his gear in, but agreed that he asked the real reason why McCann quit, to which McCann answered he felt like he was being hound-dogged too much.

   1977, United States, National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 224, page 853

   And you get a lesson in turkey behavior by hound-dogging the footsteps of these shrewd giants.

   1978, Dennis Walrod, “Stalking The Monster Birds”, in Field & Stream, volume 83, number 6, page 158

   She tapped her toe anxiously. "You ought to be hound-dogging the murderer instead of terrorizing little old ladies."

   2007, Cindy Keen Reynders, The Saucy Lucy Murders, Book One in the Saucy Lucy Series

   The night-fighters hound-dogged the three bombers for over a hundred miles but never managed to pull within effective firing range.

   2019, Steven K. Bailey, Bold Venture, The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942–1945, page 60