dog food
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3.9
- noun
- /dɔg fud/
- Jargon
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uso interno del producto
- As the Googlers say, "You need to eat your own dog food and make sure it's the best dog food before you go passing it off on other folks."
And the reason for that is another computer science principle of eat your own dog food.
- And the reason for that is another computer science principle of eat your own dog food.
- And basically the message in each one said this is like dog food.
Examples
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As the Googlers say, "You need to eat your own dog food and make sure it's the best dog food before you go passing it off on other folks."
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Oh, Paul, would - would you mind not dropping him off at the dog food center?
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Michael: This is all dog food.
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They've eaten their own dog food.
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He won't say shit, eats dog food.
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So, you're tellin' me I'm as good as a horse being sold for dog food, huh?
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However, I think that the reason they didn't focus on the UI was for the sake of the developers who would use the tool (and because they ate their own dog food).
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To ensure quality, the company decided to start using its own dog food in internal testing.
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The team knew they had to showcase confidence in their product by consuming their own dog food.
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Using their own dog food helped the developers identify issues before launching to clients.
Synonyms
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9.3
Use a company's own products to show they work and learn from them
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 in business comes from the saying 'eat your own dog food'. One popular image is a maker of dog food using it at home to show it is safe, and that's why when a company uses its own product inside to test it, people call that 'dog food'.