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🧑🏽 Light brown skin 🐕 A hunting dog
redbone

redbone

1 9.8
A hunting dog with a red coat that is fast and good at tracking
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛdboʊn/
  • US
: Redbone Coonhound
  • The redbone hound sprinted through the woods, its speed unmatched by any other breed.
  • redbone hound

Examples

  • Bluetick and redbone howlers and criers.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I saw him once pulling whistlepig spines out of a stray redbone hound, keeping him calm and holding him off from snapping while the spears came out.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The Redbone has grown from a small Florida Keys tournament in 1988 to nearly 30 competitions worldwide, raising over $16.

    Blog text (29)

  • Now that the MLB season is over, Johnson has joined the list of celebrities fishing in the 25th Redbone fishing tournament Nov. 2-4 in Islamorada, Florida.

    Blog text (29)

  • He "grubbed" potatoes for her, churned for her, took her fishing with him, and even let her go hunting with him when he discovered her enthusiasm for dogs in general, and his pair of "redbone" hounds in particular.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • We are not prepared for this astonishment to visit our own city street, to glide publicly past the Quickie Suds and Redbone's Bar-B-Que.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • We went hunting with our redbone, and it tracked the scent flawlessly.

  • I have always wanted a redbone hound because of their agility and keen sense of smell.

Surface Forms

redbone singular
redbones plural

Etymology

The word redbone for the dog comes from its coat: red ('red' colour) plus bone as a short name part, making a simple breed name. So the name helps you remember a strong American hunting dog with a reddish coat.