Definitions for top-dog

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Top-Dog is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in top-dog (-dgoopt).

Definitions for top-dog

noun

  1. a person, group, or nation that has acquired a position of highest authority.
  2. the winner of a competition or rivalry; champion:
  3. Animal Behavior. the alpha male or alpha female in a dominance hierarchy.

Origin of top-dog

First recorded in 1885-1900

Examples for top-dog

Dog experts were astonished when Bella ended the long reign of Max as top dog.

If Ben Affleck is the top dog at the rear of the party, Taylor Swift is the center of attention at the front of it.

All I know is that we are top dog, and everything will pan out all right in the end.

He's got to believe he's top dog, or else he folds and quits.

Not of a top dog, as This Morning remains comfortably in third, but one that says to those other guys, “We are coming for you.”

Go back on my hand-shake, just to be top dog and get the bones!

In any event, for the Kudo-kai, the police arrest of their top dog is expected to have the impact of a well-thrown hand grenade.

Google could spend less on development, and still maintain its position as top dog.

So you see, the man is the top dog in a case like this, my dear, and he can compel the woman to obey him.

Lucilla, as Jeckie well knew, had long been top dog in the Grice menage.

Word Value for top-dog
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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