Definitions for hound-dog

hound-dog hound dog

Hound-Dog is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in hound-dog (-ddghnoou).

Definitions for hound-dog

noun

  1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Dialect. hound1 (def 1).
  2. (initial capital letter) Military. a jet-propelled air-to-ground missile designed to be launched from B-52 aircraft and having nuclear capability.

Origin of hound-dog

An Americanism dating back to 1640-50

Examples for hound-dog

Marster Jim tell me one time, dat de first dog sprung from a wolf, and dat fust dog was a hound dog.

He had been on the trail of that convention, its movements, its progress, as a hound dog would follow the trail of a fox.

In fifty years breeding from the best, these dogs are all that are needed in a hound dog.

If slavery had never been done 'way wid, dat would be my master today, 'cause him lak hound dogs and I lak a hound dog.

It was the voice of a hound dog—not so awful loud, but clear and mellow and tuneful, and carried to us on the wind.

Little Louise was the smartest member of the Quigg family, which consisted only of herself, her father and the hound dog, Beauty.

His weapons were an ax, a club, a trap, and a hound dog; possibly he might own an old war musket bored out for shot.

Let the negro ramble about with his hound dog and his war musket; he couldn't possibly kill the quail.

Jack Rabbit threw down his bag of carrots and leaped across the fields as though a hound dog was on his track.

There isn't much left of me but hound dog, but even a hound dog will bite if you kick him hard enough.

Word Value for hound-dog
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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