Meaning of yellow dog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of yellow dog, chiefly used when the word has the sense "Carolina dog" or the sense "Yellow Dog Democrat".
   alt-of
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
3. A Carolina dog.
   Southern-US, US, especially
4. An item or person of low value.
   US, informal
5. Ellipsis of Yellow Dog Democrat.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncommon

Examples

“If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.”

“A respectable class of candidates for minor state offices, and for state senate and assembly, at this moment desire to run on the ticket with Roosevelt. As soon as there is a third ticket in the field no one but a yellow dog will consent to run on Platt's ticket.”

“What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?”

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