running dog

noun

1. Disparaging.,  (especially in Chinese Communist propaganda)

   1. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests.

   2. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey.

      to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.

2. Architecture.,  Vitruvian scroll.

Word History and Origins

Origin of running dog¹

1925–30; in political sense, translation of Chinese zǒugǒu

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