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red dog

noun red dogs

  1. US, countable A blitz.
  2. uncountable The lowest grade of flour in milling, secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and mainly useful as animal feed. This fraction of grain offal contains a number of over-lapping sub-fractions, which are known in the trade as red-dog, shorts, middlings, and bran. A portion of the red-dog is contained in the lowest grade of straight flour.
  3. uncountable Coal slag.
  4. informal, uncountable Prickly heat; miliaria.
  5. countable, uncountable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.

verb red dogs · red dogging · red dogged

  1. US To blitz.

proper noun

  1. A card game in which players bet on the next card to appear.

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@misc{red_dog_2026,
  title = {red dog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/red%20dog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}