dog

1 :  canine dog breeders a dog collar

2 :  having an inferior or inauthentic quality :  spurious dog rhyme; especially, languages :  unlike that used by native speakers or writers dog Latin dog French

1a :  to hunt, track, or follow like a hound dogged her every moveb :  to worry as if by pursuit with dogs :  plague dogged by his past failuresc :  to bother or pester persistently dogged him about his grades

2 :  to fasten with a simple mechanical device consisting of a spike, bar, or hook :  to fasten with a dog (see ¹dog 3a) dogged down the hatch

:  extremely, utterly dog-tired

1 :  a domestic animal that eats meat and is closely related to the wolves

2 :  any of the group of mammals (as wolves, foxes, and jackals) to which the domestic dog belongs

3 :  person 1 You lucky dog!

1 :  to hunt, track, or follow like a hound I dogged them all the way.

2 :  pester

3 :  to cause problems for Injuries dogged the team.

:  a highly variable carnivorous domesticated mammal of the genus Canis (C. familiaris) closely related to the common wolf (Canis lupus); broadly :  any member of the family Canidae