infracaninophile

plural infracaninophiles

1. rareA person who loves or admires underdogs.

   'A lover of the upper-dog', as distinguished from today's infracaninophiles.

   1976, Samuel Krislov, Representative Bureaucracy, Prentice-Hall, page 46

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   But I do quarrel with those who under the guise of friendship for labor assume the role of infracaninophiles and then proceed to sabotage everything that means anything to labor.

   1940, Michael J. Bradley, National Labor Relations Act: hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate National Labor Relations Board, volume 29, page 7775

   I was already a committed infracaninophile, and Gestalt psychology was clearly the underdog in a department that included B. F. Skinner.

   2007, Ulric Neisser, "Ulric Neisser", in Gardner Lindzey and William McKinley Runyan, eds., A History of Psychology in Autobiography, American Psychological Association, Volume 9, page 276