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hound dog

Word definitions for hound dog in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Hound Dog " is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller . Recorded originally by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton on August 13, 1952 in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in late February 1953, "Hound Dog" was Thornton's ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears [syn: hound ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Southern US dialectal English) Any hound, especially the bloodhound. 2 (context slang English) A promiscuous man.

Usage examples of hound dog.

It was the year that I started seeing an old hound dog, a light tan female with dark brown patches and one dark spot over an eye that made her look like a bandit.

He saw the grizzled old Basque emerge from the half-light into the reflected glare of sunlight, fuming pipe caught between his teeth, holding in his arms the struggling black-and-brown form of his hound dog Roxie, with Trapper's Joe's big hand muzzling her attempt to bark a greeting to the radio ham she regarded as her friend.

Susie, my hound dog, came up out of the radio, where she had been resting, or hiding, or whatever Susie did.

But my brother, he started bringin' home all these records of Catchin' Vaughn, Sugar Box MaGee, Hound Dog Naylor, Black Bottom McPhail, Blind Black.

There was a big, rawboned red-coated hound dog sitting in the middle of the drivewav.

The bags under his eyes, his drooping jowls, and his rubbery features made him appear as friendly and comfortable as an old hound dog.

Jack Kennedy is a desiccated liberal playboy with the moral convictions of a crotch-sniffing hound dog.

The gang confessed they did take that hound dog, and kept it for their own use.