dog vs leave

dog

verb
  • To follow in an annoying or harassing way. 

  • To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. 

  • To criticize. 

  • To pursue with the intent to catch. 

  • To divide (a watch) with a comrade. 

  • To fasten a hatch securely. 

  • To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place. 

noun
  • A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this. 

  • A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. 

  • The meat of this animal, eaten as food 

  • A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office. 

  • A man, guy, chap. 

  • The eighteenth Lenormand card. 

  • One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses. 

  • Something that performs poorly. 

  • Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. 

  • A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action. 

  • A sexually aggressive man. 

  • Underdog. 

  • Foot. 

  • The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding. 

  • Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible. 

  • A dull, unattractive girl or woman. 

  • A metal support for logs in a fireplace. 

  • (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone. 

  • Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection. 

adj
  • Of inferior quality; dogshit. 

leave

verb
  • To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. 

  • To cause, to result in. 

  • To let be or do without interference. 

  • To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. 

  • To transfer possession of after death. 

  • To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. 

  • To produce leaves or foliage. 

  • To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. 

  • To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. 

  • To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. 

  • To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. 

  • To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). 

noun
  • The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. 

  • The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones). 

  • Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. 

  • Permission. 

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