dog food
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- noun
- /dɔg fud/
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comida para perros
- The three most popular types of dog foods are dry, semi-moist, and canned products.
- eat dog food
- dry dog food
- bag of dog food
Your job is to pour the dog food into the dog bowl.
- Your job is to pour the dog food into the dog bowl.
- The FDA food police insists that dog food cannot be sold if it has poison in it.
- This is a white metal tin with black accents and it says dog food on it.
- Do you remember back in the day when we reviewed your dog food recipes with a real actual dog?
- We're starting the pile for all the dogs things, their crates, their leashes, their dog bowls, the dog food and we sit down to have dinner.
Examples
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I left to buy dog food, and I need to feed my dogs.
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People sometimes just pick the first dog food bag they see at the store.
Blog text (9) -
But this right here is where we keep our most of our dog food before we need it.
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I gave her your dog food.
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We need to get dog food.
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Mom, we're out of dog food!
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The first challenge in choosing a dog food is picking one that has overall quality.
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This is a white metal tin with black accents and it says dog food on it.
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This is dog food.
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It's important to choose the right dog food that meets your pet's nutritional needs.
Synonyms
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Dry small pellets of food for dogs or cats
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Things pets eat, like meals for dogs or cats
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A hard dry food for dogs often used as a treat
Food for dogs sold in metal cans
A snack someone bakes at home for a dog
Food made for pets such as cats or dogs to keep them healthy
How Suitable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
This sense of 'dog food' is industry jargon derived from the idiom 'eat your own dog food' meaning to use a company’s own product; the literal constituents 'dog' + 'food' point to pet food, so a B1 learner who only knows the words would not infer the corporate/testing meaning. The meaning is metaphorical and context-specific rather than compositional, making it unpredictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Dog food is the food made for dogs to eat. Picture a bowl of kibble or wet food and you will remember it means 'food for dogs'.