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Meaning of dogfood

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

dogfood

Pronunciation:

noun

Definitions

  1. Food eaten by or appropriate for dogs in general, whether wild or domesticated.

  2. Food for domesticated dogs.

  3. Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.

  4. Heroin.

noun

Definitions

  1. Meat from a dog eaten as food.

    Example: We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.

  2. Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.

  3. An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.

    Example: Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!

verb

Definitions

  1. To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.

    Example: You’re dogfooding Longhorn [a version of Microsoft Windows]?