Dogs
/dɑɡz/
noun
- A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
"The dog barked all night long."
- Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
"She’s a real dog."
- A man (derived from definition 2).
"He's a silly dog."
verb
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
"The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."
- To fasten a hatch securely.
"It is very important to dog down these hatches..."
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
"I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
"A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."
noun
- Meat from a dog eaten as food.
"We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time."
- Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
- An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
"Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!"
Total: 6 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Dogs"
Dogs is a 4-letter word that scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "dogs" can be rearranged to form 1 other valid word.
Using "Dogs" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "dogs" is a low-scoring word.