Usually means: Metaphor for depression or melancholy.
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  1. black dog: Merriam-Webster
  2. black dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black dog: Collins English Dictionary
  4. black-dog: Wordnik
  5. black dog: Wiktionary
  6. black dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. black dog: Dictionary.com
  8. Black Dog (Osage chief), Black Dog (film), Black Dog (novel), Black Dog (song), Black Dog (whisky), Black Dog, Black dog (depression), Black dog (disambiguation), Black dog (ghost), Black dog, The Black Dog (band), The Black Dog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Black Dog: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. black dog: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Black dog (disambiguation), black dog: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. black dog, black dog: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. black-dog: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Black Dog)

noun:  (euphemistic) Depression, melancholy.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, dog.
noun:  A small village in Washford Pyne parish and Woolfardisworthy parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS8009).

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