running dog

noun

Definition of running dognext
as in satellite

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  1. satellite
  2. company man
  3. minion
  4. slave
  5. henchman
  6. parasite
  7. sponge
  8. lackey
Noun
  • Conventional metal satellites create aluminum oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.
    Reuters, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Ukraine, the United States, NATO, and open-source satellites may not be able to differentiate whether Russia is transporting warheads for maintenance or security—or to a military base from which they might be launched.
    William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of satellite
Noun
  • That’s a lot of synergy, and Michaels is a company man.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Costner would be a splashy get for a straight-to-streaming movie, and the actor was a company man.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 June 2024
Definition of company man
Noun
  • Step aside Disney princesses, vampires and minions – another Halloween costume may have joined the list of most popular getups for 2024: Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The MacGuffin that causes Knull’s generic, interstellar cockroach minions to hunt down Venom/Brock on Earth is a lifeforce-slash-tracking-device known as the Codex.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of minion
Noun
  • During this period of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly 300,000 enslaved persons were transported in slave ships from African ports to mainland North America and more than 3.4 million disembarked in the British and French West Indies.
    Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Marvel’s Moon Knight Director Mohamed Diab has revealed fresh details about his new feature Lion, starring Egyptian megastar Mohamed Ramadan in a role inspired by Ancient Rome rebel slave Spartacus.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of slave
Noun
  • Around 90 percent of Thessaloniki’s Jewish population was killed by the Third Reich’s henchmen, which accounted for roughly a third of the city’s total population.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the passenger cab, the front fascia is made up of a steel and gold topographic map of the Furka Pass, where Bond played cat and mouse with Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of henchman
Noun
  • Indoor cats are also less at risk from contagious diseases and parasites.
    Rachael O'Connor, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Keep your pet’s vaccines and worming medications up-to-date since they can be exposed to rabies, canine distemper and other parasites from raccoons and their waste.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of parasite
Noun
  • Cleaning one efficiently might take a slender bottle-cleaning brush or, more simply, a soft sponge that’s easy to manipulate around its curves without missing any spots.
    Kayla Blanton, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2024
  • When Paul cuts it, there are green layers of spinach sponge inside with avocado and chocolate icing in between the layers.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of sponge
Noun
  • The first principle of Chavismo, the movement created by Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, is that Chavistas are locked in a permanent struggle with the imperialist United States and its lackeys in the Venezuelan oligarchy.
    Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2019
  • Long dismissed as a lackey or a laughingstock (thanks to his looks and his limp), the former driver turned factory manager spots an opportunity where others only see catastrophe.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
Definition of lackey
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