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Noun
red dog (countable and uncountable, plural red dogs)
- (countable, US, American football) A blitz.
- (uncountable) The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed.
1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75:This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour.
- (uncountable) Coal slag.
- (uncountable, informal) Prickly heat; miliaria.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.
Verb
red dog (third-person singular simple present red dogs, present participle red dogging, simple past and past participle red dogged)
- (US, American football) To blitz.
Proper noun
red dog
- A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.
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