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hound noun- a person who is obsessed with the preceding combining noun US, 1911
Not, as the definition might suggest, a grammarian. - Tall, slender, with regular features, dark and personable, Legs was a night club hound, even owned some himself. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 160, 1948
- But he knew all about Estes Kefauver whom he described as a publicity hound. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 160, 1961
- For a minute or two, he was completely unable to think of what he could possibly say to her that would not make him sound like a cock hound[.] — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 68, 1969
- I was a big pussy-hound. Ain’t changed much either. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 12, 1975
- Once upstairs in the Melody lobby, Raven is instantly surrounded by admirers and tit hounds. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 23, 1986
- an unattractive woman UK
A variation of DOG. - Yi should see some of the hounds he’s had by the way, doll. — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- a Greyhound bus US
- — Swinging Syllables, 1959
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 86, 1971
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