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nodding dog

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noun

  1. a small model of a dog carried as a mascot in a motor vehicle, with a head so mounted that it moves up and down with the motion of the vehicle

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The writer described by writing that it looked "as if the nodding dog in a car was channelling the Joker".

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2014

Oh yes, yes, yes, Royal Bank of Scotland hopes City fund managers will bark this week in synchronised impressions of that irritating nodding dog on the company's Churchill ads.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012

He says we should expect to see some grimaces, a change from the "nodding dog", he's been in the past year.

From BBC • May 11, 2011

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