service dog

[ sur-vis dawg, dog ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a dog trained to assist a person with a disability, especially a disability other than blindness, such as by alerting a deaf person to important environmental sounds or a person with an allergy to the presence of their allergen in food.

First recorded in 1915–20

His service dog named Apache, an Australian cattle dog, always stays close and “loves the snow.”

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