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yellow_dog

yellow dog

See also: Yellow Dog

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Noun

yellow dog (plural yellow dogs)

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see yellow, dog.
  2. (US, chiefly Southern US) A Carolina dog.
  3. (US, informal) An item or person of low value.
    • 1877, Charles White; Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5:
      If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.
    • 1897, John Jay Chapman, editor, The Political nursery, volume 1:10 - 4:10:
      A respectable class of candidates for minor state offices, and for state senate and assembly, at this moment desire to run on the ticket with Roosevelt. As soon as there is a third ticket in the field no one but a yellow dog will consent to run on Platt's ticket.
  4. (US, politics, uncommon) Shortening of yellow dog Democrat.
    • 2011, William Earl Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos, Texas Politics Today: 2011-2012 Edition, page 125:
      What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?

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