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hound dog

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

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hound dog

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

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Hound Dog (song)

"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 only hit record, selling over 500,000 copies, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at #1. Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll", and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.

"Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version of "Hound Dog" is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked No. 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Presley's version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and "an emblem of the rock 'n' roll revolution". It was simultaneously No. 1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presley's 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and it is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".

"Hound Dog" has been at the center of controversies and several lawsuits, including disputes over authorship, royalties, and copyright infringement by the many answer songs released by such artists as Rufus Thomas and Roy Brown. From the 1970s onward, the song has been featured in numerous films, including Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men, Hounddog, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy.

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Hound Dog (band)

Hound Dog is a popular Japanese rock band of the 1980s. It was formed in 1976.

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.