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dogs
noun- the feet; shoes US, 1914
- “What’s a-matter?” he snarls. “Pick up your dogs.” — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 6, 1949
- “Show ’em how you used to murder par in your bare dogs down home in the hills.” — Sam Snead, The Education of a Golfer, p. 58, 1962
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 796, 1962
- Preston had his bad dogs propped on a chair when I got back. I stumbled over his make-shift sandals beside the sofa. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 98, 1969
- He thought of getting up at 5 A.M., at the bare ass of dawn, and getting his dogs down to daily pay for a dishwashing gig or a kitchen job or anything at all. — William Brashler, City Dogs, p. 14, 1976
- — Ellen C. Bellone (Editor), Dictionary of Slang, p. 9, 1989
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Fall 1997
- in circus and carnival usage, the legs US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 75, 1981
- a safe’s tumblers US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 71, 1949
▶ go to the dogs
to be slowly ruined UK, 1619- Country going to the dogs[.] — The Observer, 12 November 2000
▶ the dogs
greyhound racing UK, 1927- I have also been to the dogs. Watching six skinny greyhounds chase a bit of old rag is surprisingly good entertainment[.] — The Guardian, 12 July 2003
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