red dog
English
Noun
red dog (countable and uncountable, plural red dogs)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see red, dog.
- (countable, US, American football) A blitz.
- (uncountable) The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
- 1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, p. 75,
- 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, p. 75,
Verb
red dog (third-person singular simple present red dogs, present participle red dogging, simple past and past participle red dogged)
- (US, American football) To blitz.
Proper noun
red dog
- A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.
Anagrams
- Dodger, dodger