one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
Origin: < dial. Chin, equiv. to Chin shā pí lit., sand fur (cf. Guangdong dial. sā péi); E sp. with r perh. r-less speaker's representation of the vowel
[shahr-pey] 
