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running dog
2 dictionary results for: Running Dog
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
running dog
–noun 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.Architecture. Vitruvian scroll.

[Origin: 1925–30; in political sense, trans. of Chin zǒugǒu]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
running dog  
n.   A servile follower or lackey.


[Translation of Chinese (Mandarin) zǒu gǒu : zǒu, running + gǒu, dog.]

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