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  • noun Alternative spelling of horn dog.

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  • “HARD-NOSED HILL SAVED HORNDOG BILL�? blares the headline for the New York Post's review of Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Clinton, A Woman in Charge. Sadly, her husband and our former president, whatever his virtues and contributions, is the poster boy for this term.

    July 11, 2009

  • Also horn dog.

    July 27, 2009

  • "It’s a hopeful message. Obama centrism will prevail, stabilize the country, and prepare it for progressive reform, because even football fans will understand that Super Bowl sideshows -- be they about voyeuristic horndogs, flatulent slackers, star quarterbacks, or God knows how many holy day trippers jamming down food-like products and loser liquids -- can be taken seriously only on Sunday."

    - Robert Lipsyte, 30-Second Warnings, tomdispatch.com, 4 Feb 2010.

    February 5, 2010

  • The examples haven't helped much at all. What on earth does this mean?

    February 5, 2010

  • Male with sex on the brain who afflicts females overtly or otherwise with his affliction.

    February 5, 2010

  • Really?

    February 5, 2010

  • Oh yes, at least in the realm of my ken. See horn dog.

    February 5, 2010

  • I prefer corndogs to horndogs.

    February 5, 2010

  • Thanks herneshir.

    But yarb, the objective facts of the matter are otherwise. My fat friend in the jumpsuit told me yarb aint nothin' but a horndog.

    February 5, 2010

  • He's something of a horndog, etc etc.

    February 5, 2010

  • Brilliant, now I'm the rutting delinquent of Wordnik.

    Well, any takers?

    February 5, 2010

  • Aspiring to the title of Houghmagander.

    May 4, 2011