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mad dog

noun 3
mad-dog adjective 1
forms 4

noun3

A rabid dog.
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(figurative) Someone who is aggressive and fanatical; an aggressor who cannot be reasoned with.
- Although the enemy saw that they were being hurt, they were such mad dogs that we could by no means prevent their pursuing us — 1843
A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft.

mad-dog adjective1

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Fanatically or irrationally ferocious.
- It takes a professor to arrive at so mad-dog a state of mind. — 1908

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