dogcatcher
2
4.2
- noun
- /ˈdɔɡˌkæʧər/
- US
:
recogedor de perros
- All Dad does these days is eat chocolate donuts, sleep, and evade the local dogcatcher.
- call the dogcatcher
Examples
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"Come here, old soldier," the dogcatcher was saying, "and I'll take you to the land of milk and honey."
Fiction book (1999) -
How freely may we run before the dogcatcher catches up with us?
Fiction book (1996) -
The very same dogcatchers were cruising their city truck around his block.
Fiction book (1995) -
A dogcatcher prowled around with a ventilated, louver-sided truck and a big catch net.
Fiction book (2001) -
Not to frighten you, but if a dogcatcher comes across a dog without a license, he's liable to think it's a stray and do God-knows-what to it.
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When the dogcatchers were done setting their trap, they cruised off in a battered GMC pickup with a faded city decal.
Fiction book (1995) -
Bending down to scoop the pile into a square-point shovel, Coyote saw the town dogcatchers setting a wire trap across the street in a corner of the elementary school playground.
Fiction book (1995) -
The dogcatcher was called to rescue the stray dog from the busy street.
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After receiving reports of a dangerous dog in the neighborhood, the dogcatcher arrived to secure the area.
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The local dogcatcher successfully captured the lost puppy and took it to the shelter.
Synonyms
5
3.2
A person who finds stray dogs and brings them to a shelter
Idioms
- Informal
Fail to win even a small local job because few people vote for you
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dogcatcher is made from dog and catcher, with 'catch' meaning 'to take or hold'. So a dogcatcher is literally a person whose job is to catch stray or dangerous dogs.