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dog food

Syllabification: (dog food)
Definition of dog food

noun

  • food eaten by or intended to be eaten by domesticated dogs: a can of dog food

verb

[with object] (usually dogfood)
  • informal, chiefly Computing (of a company’s staff) use a product or service developed by that company so as to test it before it is made available to customers:it was a great opportunity to dogfood the phones (as noun dogfooding)If you’re writing software intended for other developers then dogfooding makes perfect sense

Phrases

eat one's own dog food

informal, chiefly Computing (of a company’s staff) use a product or service developed by that company so as to test it before it is made available to customers:we had to eat our own dog food—we had to make sure the tools worked

dog food in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of dog food in the British & World English dictionary
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