"alpha-dog" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 September 27, James Poniewozik, “How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "At the left was Mr. Trump, the volatile presence who alpha-dogged a season of Republican debates. Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 22, Peter Conrad, “Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels review – duck, Donald…”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO",
          "text": "Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): And I don't know, I guess, I just don't want him rubbing off on you. You know, and I don't like the way he alpha-dogs you.\nEthan Spiller (Will Sharpe): He doesn't alpha-dog me. I mean, he kind of used to, I guess, but it's different now.",
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        "To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male."
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          "crassly"
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        "(informal, chiefly US) To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male."
      ],
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        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alpha-dog"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 September 27, James Poniewozik, “How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "At the left was Mr. Trump, the volatile presence who alpha-dogged a season of Republican debates. Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 22, Peter Conrad, “Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels review – duck, Donald…”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO",
          "text": "Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): And I don't know, I guess, I just don't want him rubbing off on you. You know, and I don't like the way he alpha-dogs you.\nEthan Spiller (Will Sharpe): He doesn't alpha-dog me. I mean, he kind of used to, I guess, but it's different now.",
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        "To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male."
      ],
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        "(informal, chiefly US) To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male."
      ],
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  "word": "alpha-dog"
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