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verb (used with object), mad·-dogged, mad·-dog·ging.Slang. to glare at threateningly. Origin of mad-dogAn Americanism dating back to 1985–90 Words nearby mad-dogmadder, madder family, madder lake, madding, maddish, mad-dog, mad-dog skullcap, Maddux, made, made dish, made-down bed Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mad-dogYou had the mad-dog colonel in his crazy uniform up against a righteous uprising with NATO jets flying overhead. Journalist John Cantlie Learned How Deadly Syria Can Be When He Was Held Hostage by Jihadis|Mike Giglio|August 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST In one glance he recognized, not a mad-dog, but an abused, frightened creature running for its life. White Dandy; or, Master and I|Velma Caldwell Melville Philip had sworn to die like a mad-dog before he would surrender his fortresses, but he yielded ultimately without a blow. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9|Various I haue an excellent balme to cure anie that is bitten with Martin mad-dog. Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets|Various
Many of the citizens were in a mad-dog fury because Flynn had not licked Johnson. Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty|Nicholas Vachel Lindsay I fear, Senor Dictator, that your pledge to see me across the frontier will not avail against that mad-dog mob. Bucky O'Connor|William MacLeod Raine
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