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View synonyms for mad-dog

mad-dog

verb (used with object)

, mad·-dogged, mad·-dog·ging.
  1. Slang. to glare at threateningly.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mad-dog1

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90

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Example Sentences

Originally I envisioned “Mr. Tall” as a novel, and originally I envisioned “Jack and the Mad Dog” as a novel.

Mr. Tall” is sort of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and that started to talk to “Jack and the Mad Dog.

And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.

“Y-y-yeah,” said the boy, trying to sneak a look at the famous mad dog outlaws without rousing us to violence.

With the court approval, Bo directly questioned a former business ally, and called another real estate developer “a mad dog.”

We do not blame the maniac who burns a house down and brains a policeman, nor the mad dog who bites a minor poet.

But if a dog bites him he yells 'mad dog' an' him an' th' neighbors pound th' dog to pieces with clubs.

No man has appeared who could say that he has seen a man live who was bitten by a mad dog.'

One whimper from you, damn you, and I'll shoot you as I would a mad dog!

He was near to the mad dog's fate, as soon as a convenient apology for stopping his career could be invented.

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