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

Example Sentences

The shepherd had just sent the collie to fetch them up, and the running dog was like a yellow streak across the green.

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"Running Dog is coming to tell us about something big," they cried.

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"Listen, my brothers, I will tell you about it," said Running Dog.

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Running Dog was interrupted by the sound of a familiar voice from the darkness.

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"Yes, we heard his call, but he did not make it," Running Dog told him.

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