red dog

noun, verb — 6 senses

red dog

noun
1

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports US A blitz.

2

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.1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75:
3

Coal slag.

4

Informal Prickly heat; miliaria.

5

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dog.

red dog

verb
1

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports US To blitz.

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