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From over- +‎ dog, modelled on earlier underdog.

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overdog (plural overdogs)

  1. someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 556:
      Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequenly irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs:

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