What does mad-dog mean?
Mad-dog means Attributive form of mad dog.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Attributive form of mad dog.
These are mad-dog times, man!
Then she calls the cops, reports your standard mad-dog black burglar.
All we have to do is kill the mad-dog Nicaraguan who oppresses our people, calling himself a soldier.
And, now, these same cynical cops were being asked to shoot that dude on sight, to treat him like a mad-dog psychopath—the sanest guy in town.
Against the bite of a mad-dog : take two onions or three, boil them, spread them in ashes, mix them with fat and honey, lay it on.
To detect the microbes, he had to collect the saliva of a mad-dog.
Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel.
It's also a proof that the newly appointed mad-dogs may be the same bad-eggs of the system that squandered the defense budget, sided with the insurgents and fought the country.
Use mad-dog when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mad-dog means Attributive form of mad dog.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These are mad-dog times, man!
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