dog show
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2.0
- noun
- /dɔɡ ʃoʊ/
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exposición canina
- Every August in our town of Tyson, Utah, there is an annual dog show.
- Westminster dog show
- Kennel Club dog show
- annual dog show
And, and then coming from quite a humble beginning of being in a family where we made money selling pet products out of a yellow caravan at dog shows.
- And, and then coming from quite a humble beginning of being in a family where we made money selling pet products out of a yellow caravan at dog shows.
- Cat people and people who know dog shows are for dogs.
- It's like a decade old, but is a vice video where a guy does acid for the first time and then goes to the Westminster dog show.
Examples
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A Mrs. Daisy Barrington chartered our service to take her pets to a dog show in Kauai.
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Matthew took him to the dog show.
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We're late for the dog show!
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You think you could win the dog show?
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We're here to enter the dog show.
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There was a massive dog show attracting dogs from right around the country.
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One time when I was a girl, Dad and me took Sammy and Murphy, our whippets, to a dog show in Pontypridd.
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I used to hate the dog show—it was so boring and so dorky, but now I look back on it fondly.
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The dog show featured a variety of breeds competing for best in show.
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Last weekend, I attended a local dog show where many talented dogs participated.
Synonyms
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1.0
An event like a play or concert that people watch
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a staged event featuring dogs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dog' (the animal) with 'show' (a staged event). This noun+noun composition follows a common and predictable English pattern (and similar patterns in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Dog show comes from old fairs where people brought their dogs to show them to others. Judges looked at each dog against breed rules and picked the best, so Dog show means 'a contest where dogs are judged for how well they match their breed'.