| 释义 |
dog
verb- to avoid work; to work slowly US
- I hoped they would understand that I wasn’t going what they called it–“over the hill”–because I was yellow or wanted to dog a fight. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 188, 1955
- That bastard on the next line is dogging–I’ve made three trips to his two. — Donald Duncan, The New Legions, p. 131, 1967
- “He’s not dogging it,” Carbone said. “He’s got a temperature and he’s got a fever and he’s got the trots.” — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 90, 1981
- to studiously ignore US
- — Washington Post Magazine, p. 17, 12 April 1987: “Say wha?”
- to abuse or harass US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 92, 1992
- “Why you dog ’im like that in public?” — Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, p. 131, 1999
- “I can’t dog my boys like that.” — Linden Dalecki, Kid B, p. 141, 2006
- in motor racing, to follow another car very closely, hoping to distract or weaken the resolve of the driver ahead US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 38, 1965
- of a male, to have sex with a partner who is kneeling on all-fours and entered from behind UK, 1937
- — A.D. Peterkin, The Bald-Headed Hermit and The Artichoke, p. 35, 1999
- to perform sexually for money US
- — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 136, 1989
- to betray AUSTRALIA, 1896
- in pool, to miss a shot that should be made US
- The other man won it, broke the balls wide and ran half the solids before dogging a thin cut into the corner. — Walter Tevis, The Color of Money, p. 114, 1984
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 11, 1990
- to play truant UK: SCOTLAND
- Extended from a variation of “dodge”. With variant “dog it”.
- — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 21, 1985
- to hunt dingoes AUSTRALIA, 1910
Variant: to wild dog.
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