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dog-walker

American  
[dawg-waw-ker, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌwɔ kər, ˈdɒg- /

noun

  1. a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.


Example Sentences

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He’s lovely to have around — plus he’s the main dog-walker.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

His body was discovered by a dog-walker in a Barking graveyard near Port's flat.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2021

Some of her companions donned woolen cloaks resembling those worn by the Stark family, a procession which prompted one startled dog-walker to wonder if they were part of a Celtic ritual.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2019

A gaggle of purebred retrievers and standard poodles, leashed to a dog-walker, trotted across the street.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2017

There he took in the tableaux of downtown Manhattan on a fall Sunday morning — a mixture of the hung-over and the early riser, the dog-walker and the walk-of-shamer.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2016

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