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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

Vitruvian scroll

–noun
a scroll forming a stylized wave pattern.
Also called running dog, Vitruvian wave, wave scroll.


Origin:
1830–40; named after Vitruvius Pollio
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running dog  
n.  A servile follower or lackey.

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