dogcatcher

noun

dog·​catch·​er ˈdȯg-ˌka-chər How to pronounce dogcatcher (audio)
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: a community official assigned to catch and dispose of stray dogs

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The town dogcatcher will never recover from my blistering critique. — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024 In addition to working horses, the authors focus on the cattle and pigs being slaughtered in the Chicago stockyards, the elephants touring the country with P.T. Barnum’s circus, and the city dogs swept up daily by dogcatchers and taken to the pound. — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024

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First Known Use

circa 1703, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dogcatcher was circa 1703

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