Definitions for dog-eat-dog

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Spelling: [dawg-eet-dawg, dog-eet-dog]

IPA: /ˈdɔg itˈdɔg, ˈdɒg itˈdɒg/

Dog-Eat-Dog is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in dog-eat-dog (--addeggoot).

Definitions for dog-eat-dog

noun

1. complete egotism; action based on utter cynicism:

adjective

1. marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.:

Origin of dog-eat-dog

First recorded in 1930-35

Examples for dog-eat-dog

I cannot live by the dog-eat-dog code that seems to prevail wherever folk get jammed together in an unwieldy social mass.

If we eventually lick the Kradens, one of the very reasons will be because we're a dog-eat-dog society.

The cannibalism is, in typical Sondheim fashion, a cheeky metaphor for the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the day.

His plays have typically been dog-eat-dog affairs; it makes sense that he views politics as trench warfare.