hound dog

English

Noun

hound dog (plural hound dogs)

(Southern US, dialectal) Any hound, especially the bloodhound.
- 1953/6: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog (song made famous by Elvis Presley with these revised words in 1956) - You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, Cryin’ all the time. Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit And you ain’t no friend of mine.
(slang) A promiscuous man.

Translations

any hound

promiscuous man

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