Usually means: Fiercely competitive, ruthless survival struggle.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word dog eat dog:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dog-eat-dog: Merriam-Webster
  2. dog eat dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dog-eat-dog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dog eat dog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dog-eat-dog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dog-eat-dog, dog eat dog: Wiktionary
  7. dog-eat-dog: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. dog-eat-dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. dog-eat-dog, dog eat dog: Dictionary.com
  10. dog-eat-dog: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  12. Dog-Eat-Dog: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  13. Dog Eat Dog: The Word Detective
  14. dog-eat-dog: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. dog eat dog: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dog Eat Dog: Investopedia
  2. dog-eat-dog: Legal dictionary
  3. dog-eat-dog: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dog-eat-dog: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dog-eat-dog: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dog-eat-dog, dog eat dog: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dog eat dog: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dog eat dog)

adjective:  Ruthlessly acquisitive or competitive. Describes a business or other set of circumstances where people try to succeed at the expense of other people.

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