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View synonyms for running dog

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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of running dog1

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

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