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hangdog

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Definitions

  1. frightened into submission or compliance

Word origin

From hang + dog.

Used in a sentence

  • The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
  • Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.
  • With a twenty-one to three victory, Pinewood high-stepped it off the field while our Falcons hangdogged their way to the locker room.

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