Wiktionary
n. (context US English) an animal shelter where stray dogs are kept
WordNet
n. a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound" [syn: pound]
Wikipedia
Dog Pound (2010) is a Canadian movie directed and co-written by Kim Chapiron. It is a remake of the British borstal film, Scum. This is Chapiron's only Canadian film and his only film to go direct-to-video.
Usage examples of "dog pound".
Staying in this place with the windows open is like living next to a dog pound.
He went to the lot where his car was parked, and drove out toward the Greenfield incinerating plant, on the other side of the river, where the dog pound was.
And tomorrow morning, when the moon set, he'd turn back to himself there in the dog pound, stark naked, and they'd find him there, and it would be in all the papers, and they'd assume it was a prank, or that he'd been drunk, and any chance he might actually be elected mayor would be gone .
One of her first summer jobs in college had been working at a dog pound.
BON VOYAGE it reminded her uncomfortably of Boston's city dog pound.
I got a walk on those trumped-up molestation counts if I did five hundred hours of community service, worked at the dog pound and got therapy from Dr Lecter.
She decided to try another part of town, off Remus Road near the Dog Pound.
He could have told the stupid bastards that those plans never had a cat in a dog pound's chance of working, off paper.