running dog
1Running Dog — infobox Book | name = Running Dog title orig = translator = image caption = Running Dog by Don DeLillo author = Don DeLillo cover artist = Karl Korab country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Alfred A. Knopf… …
2running dog — noun Etymology: translation of Chinese tsou2 kou3 hunting dog, lackey, literally, running dog : one who does someone else s bidding : lackey charge the missionaries with being running dogs for the imperialistic foreign powers Living Age …
3running dog — Disparaging. 1. (esp. in Chinese Communist propaganda) a. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. b. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists. 2. Archit. See… …
4running-dog pattern — ▪ architectural motif in classical architecture, decorative motif consisting of a repeated stylized convoluted form, something like the profile of a breaking wave. This pattern, which may be raised above, incised into, or painted upon a surface …
5running dog — noun Date: 1927 one who blindly follows someone else s orders ; lackey …
6running dog — noun lackey; an unprincipled person who helps or flatters other, more powerful and often evil people; similar in this sense to the English word lapdog …
7running dog — noun informal a servile follower. Origin translating Chin. zǒugǒu …
8dog — n. 1) to breed; keep dogs 2) to walk a dog (on a leash) 3) to muzzle a dog 4) to curb one s dog 5) a mad, rabid; stray; vicious; wild dog 6) a bird (AE), gun (BE); Eskimo; guard (BE); guide, seeing eye; hunting; pet; police; sheep; toy dog;… …
9running — {{11}}running (adj.) prp. adjective from RUN (Cf. run) (v.). Running mate originally was a horse entered in a race to set the pace for another from the same stable who was intended to win (1865); U.S. vice presidential sense is recorded from 1888 …
10Dog anatomy — includes the same internal structures that are in humans. Details of structures vary tremendously from breed to breed, more than in any other animal species, wild or domesticated,[1] as dogs vary from the tiny Chihuahua to the giant Irish… …
