dog food

See also: dogfood

English

Alternative forms

• dogfood (US)

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

dog food (countable and uncountable, plural dog foods)

1. Food eaten by or appropriate for dogs in general, whether wild or domesticated.
2. Food for domesticated dogs.
3. (computing) Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.
4. (slang) Synonym of dog meat (“dead person”)

   Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog food now!

5. (slang, drugs) Heroin, typically the non-black tar type.

Derived terms

• eat one's own dog food

Translations

food eaten by dogs

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗糧／狗粮 (gau² loeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 狗糧／狗粮 (zh) (gǒuliáng), 狗食 (zh) (gǒushí)

• Danish: hundemad (da) c, hundefoder (da) c
• Esperanto: hundmanĝaĵo
• Estonian: koeratoit (et)
• Finnish: koiranruoka (fi)
• French: nourriture pour chien
• German: Hundefutter (de) n
• Greek: σκυλοτροφή (el) f (skylotrofí)
• Kazakh: ит асы (it asy)
• Navajo: łééchąąʼí bichʼiyąʼ
• Portuguese: comida/ração para cachorros/cães f
• Russian: соба́чья еда́ f (sobáčʹja jedá)
• Spanish: comida para perros f, comida de perro f
• Swedish: hundmat (sv) c
• Turkish: köpek yemi, köpek maması