"drug dog" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drug dogs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drug dog (plural drug dogs)
  1. A detection dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate illicit substances, such as drugs, which may be carried on a person in their effects. Wikipedia link: Police dog Hypernyms: police dog, detection dog Translations (dog trained to locate evidence of narcotics): 緝毒犬 (Chinese Mandarin), 缉毒犬 (jīdúquǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), huumekoira (Finnish), 麻薬犬 (mayakuken) (alt: まやくけん) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-drug_dog-en-noun-H5NEdiY7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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