Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An exhibition of dogs; a bench-show.
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Examples
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You'd imagine that Best In Show is to dog-show realism what Black Swan is to ballet, but Crufts always raises suspicion that there's some truth behind the mockumentary.
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And while we wait for Hilarie Burton to return to White Collar as Neil's squeeze — she's not in next week's episode, either (although True Blood's Joe Mangianello is a swell consolation prize) — she was clearly having a ball on Castle sending up the stereotype of a dithery sexpot of a reality diva (part Kim Kardashian, part Paris Hilton) implicated in the murder of a dog-show official.
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The meteorchewed highways had probably stranded him somewhere on a dog-show circuit - But Marty answered.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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What's the dog-show equivalent of gilding the lily?
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As I recall and I might stand corrected, Kathy Shaidle was guest-blogging while Kate was off at a dog-show somewhere, and retracted before Kate even returned.
Warman Goes For It! Lindsay Stewart 2008
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Never before in my dog-show career, which culminated in my being the No. 1 German shorthaired pointer in 1998, have I had an accident in the ring.
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Especially with competitions and the whole dog-show world.
Living a Dog's Life 2008
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As I recall and I might stand corrected, Kathy Shaidle was guest-blogging while Kate was off at a dog-show somewhere, and retracted before Kate even returned.
Warman Goes For It! Lindsay Stewart 2008
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He has actually been indirectly recruited by Jocelyn when he tries to pick her up in a hotel elevator that is taking them to separate conventions of science-fiction enthusiasts and dog-show participants.
Plain Jane 2007
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He has actually been indirectly recruited by Jocelyn when he tries to pick her up in a hotel elevator that is taking them to separate conventions of science-fiction enthusiasts and dog-show participants.
Plain Jane 2007
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