red dog

noun

A blitz.

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Meanings

nounred dog (countable and uncountable, plural red dogs)

plural red dogs

  1. UScountableAmerican footballA blitz.
  2. uncountableThe lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.

    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.

    1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75
  3. uncountableCoal slag.
  4. informaluncountablePrickly heat; miliaria.
  5. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.
verbred dog (third-person singular simple present red dogs, present participle red dogging, simple past and past participle red dogged)

present singular third person red dogs · participle present red dogging · participle past red dogged · past red dogged

  1. USAmerican footballTo blitz.
proper noun
  1. A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

red dog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20dog

MLA

“red dog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20dog. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red dog,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20dog.

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