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  • present tense form of dog (3rd person singular).
  • plural of dog.
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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
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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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David said the dog's excitable temperament can be hard to manage without adequate training knowledge, while their strong bite can attract "the wrong type of people".

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

Looking in the rear view mirror of my own car and seeing my dog’s jowls flapping in the breeze as we zoom through Arizona.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

For pretty much everyone I know, their dog’s last years are littered with health problems that are both heartbreaking to witness and expensive to manage.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

“That could be weird ghost stuff,” Johnson says, pausing to give a play-by-play of the dog’s behavior offscreen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Then one evening the dog’s owner was there with him at the gate, the dog barking his head off as usual.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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