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| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: The dog, an popular pet among many families or individuals, is known for their dependability, company, and friendly association. Hence the term "Man's best friend.". Definition: A good friend, acquaintance. Very similar to a crony. Context: While it is sometimes used for direct conversation, it is mostly used for when speaking "of" someone else. Social Source: UC Thugs. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Uncertain. Definition: Friend. Context: This is used to showa close relationship between a male to another male without sounding "homosexual.". Social Source: African American "Rappers". Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DAWG |
| Specialty definitions using "DAWG": compact DAWG ♦ suffix tree. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ghetto Dawg (2002) Deputy Dawg (1959) R'coon Dawg (1951) | |
Song Titles | Dawg On (performing artist: Ronnie McCoury) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Salty Dawg Saloon, a landmark at Homer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DAWG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "DAWG" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.5% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dawg | 87 | dawg house | 8 |
deputy dawg | 69 | bar dawg salty | 8 |
dawg film | 39 | cartoon dawg deputy | 8 |
white dawg | 32 | 93.7 dawg | 8 |
big dawg | 30 | dawg heater hot | 8 |
dawg snoop | 26 | dawg g | 7 |
dawg salty waldport | 26 | dawg lyrics white | 7 |
dawg run | 19 | dawg films.com | 5 |
dawg mack production | 18 | dawg dirty | 5 |
dawg rem | 15 | dawg raw | 5 |
top dawg | 14 | dawg red | 5 |
dawg vent | 14 | bounty dawg hunter | 5 |
97.3 dawg | 13 | dawg treasure | 5 |
big dawg motorcycle | 12 | dawg nate | 5 |
dawg kona | 12 | dawg saloon wild | 4 |
dawg pound | 12 | dawg ghetto | 4 |
dawg mack | 11 | dawg rem shirt t | 4 |
phife dawg | 10 | daily dawg | 4 |
grateful dawg | 10 | dawg road | 4 |
hot dawg | 9 | dawg salty | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-w" | |
-1 letter: dag, daw, gad, wad, wag. | |
-2 letters: ad, ag, aw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-w" | |
+1 letter: waged. | |
+2 letters: dawing, gawked, gawped, gnawed, swaged, wading, wagged. | |
+3 letters: dagwood, dawning, dawting, dayglow, dowager, drawing, gadwall, gowaned, ragweed, swagged, twanged, wadding, wagered, waggled, wagoned, wangled, warding, whanged, windage, windbag, wordage. | |
+4 letters: agalwood, agueweed, asswaged, awarding, awninged, dagwoods, dawdling, dayglows, dewaxing, dogwatch, dowagers, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, edgeways, gadwalls, goalward, guffawed, guideway, jigsawed, ragweeds, swarding, tightwad, twangled, waddings, waddling, waddying, waggoned, watchdog, waterdog, waughted, windages, windbags, windgall, wordages, wrangled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 57 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .--. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01010111 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A W G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0057 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38355741 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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