Usually means: Aggressively fierce, uncontrollably wild behavior.
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  1. mad-dog: Wordnik
  2. mad-dog: Wiktionary
  3. mad-dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. mad-dog: Dictionary.com

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  1. mad-dog: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (mad-dog)

adjective:  Fanatically or irrationally ferocious.
noun:  (rare) Alternative form of mad dog [A rabid dog.]

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