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alpha-dog

verb

Definitions

  1. To behave like an alpha dog

    To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male.

    • At the left was Mr. Trump, the volatile presence who alpha-dogged a season of Republican debates. Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.
    • Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?

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