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  dogs

  plural noun

  greyhound racing
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  Dogs

  noun

  a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years

dogs

¹ British  

/ dɒɡz /

plural noun

1. informal greyhound racing

2. slang the feet

3. informal marketing goods with a low market share, which are unlikely to yield substantial profits

4. informal to go to ruin physically or morally

5. to leave things undisturbed

6. to abandon someone to criticism or attack

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Dogs ² British  

/ dɒɡz /

noun

1. a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years

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Example Sentences

Appeared in the May 26, 2026, print edition as 'Who Let the Dogs In?'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The hedgehog detection dog is being trained by Conservation Detection Dogs NI and will track down the tags if they fall off and help locate hedgehogs more efficiently.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

In her new 2026-27 budget proposal, Mayor Karen Bass declined to fund any of the $1.6 million for the third and final year of the Dogs Playing for Life contract.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Aimiee Sadler, chief executive of Dogs Playing for Life, said that the program helps make dogs more suitable for adoption and that keeping dogs confined to their kennels is equal to “incarceration.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“Why aren’t you trying to eat me? Dogs always try to eat me.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz