overdog

noun

overdog

noun

Etymology From over- + dog, modelled on earlier underdog.

1

someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field

Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequently irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs:2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 556:

Synonyms: top dog, upperdog
Antonyms: underdog

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