tin dog

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

tin dogs 复数 tin dogs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.

    澳大利亚

    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. 2.

    Alternative form of tinned dog, a disparaging term for canned meat.

    澳大利亚

    1993, Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust, autobiography.

词源

From tin + dog.

来源：wiktionary