tin dog

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving. Australia
    — 2005 October 30, Bruce Simpson, interviewed on Landline, Australian Broadcasting Commission, transcript, I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving.
  2. Alternative form of tinned dog, a disparaging term for canned meat. Australia,alt-of,alternative
    — 1993, Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust, autobiography.

词形变化

tin dogs plural

词源

From tin + dog.
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