Alpha-dog

Quick meaning: Alpha-dog is a verb meaning (informal, chiefly US) To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male.

Meaning

(informal, chiefly US) To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male.

Example Sentences

Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?

At the left was Mr. Trump, the volatile presence who alpha-dogged a season of Republican debates. Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.

Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): And I don't know, I guess, I just don't want him rubbing off on you. You know, and I don't like the way he alpha-dogs you. Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): He doesn't alpha-dog me. I mean, he kind of used to, I guess, but it's different now.

Word Forms

• alpha-dogs
• alpha-dogging
• alpha-dogged

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