hounddogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

hound-dog (third-person singular simple present hound-dogs, present participle hound-dogging, simple past and past participle hound-dogged)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive, uncommon) To aggressively, relentlessly, or single-mindedly pursue something, often a person for romantic or sexual interest.
   • 1977, United States, National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 224, page 853:

     Taylor denied that McCann asked where he was supposed to turn his gear in, but agreed that he asked the real reason why McCann quit, to which McCann answered he felt like he was being hound-dogged too much.

   • 1978, Dennis Walrod, “Stalking The Monster Birds”, in Field & Stream‎, volume 83, number 6, page 158:

     And you get a lesson in turkey behavior by hound-dogging the footsteps of these shrewd giants.

   • 1985, William Diehl, Hooligans, page 27:

     "Oh, nothing at all. I’ve been hounddogging this mob for what, four, five years?"

   • 2007, Cindy Keen Reynders, The Saucy Lucy Murders, Book One in the Saucy Lucy Series:

     She tapped her toe anxiously. "You ought to be hound-dogging the murderer instead of terrorizing little old ladies."

   • 2019, Steven K. Bailey, Bold Venture, The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942–1945, page 60:

     The night-fighters hound-dogged the three bombers for over a hundred miles but never managed to pull within effective firing range.