Usually means: Leader or dominant person, group.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. top dog: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. top dog: Merriam-Webster
  3. top dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. top dog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. top dog: Collins English Dictionary
  6. top dog: Vocabulary.com
  7. top-dog: Wordnik
  8. top dog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. top dog: Wiktionary
  10. top dog: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. top dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. top-dog, top dog: Dictionary.com
  13. The Top Dog, Top Dog (comic book character), Top Dog (comics), Top Dog (rapper), Top Dog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. top dog: Rhymezone
  15. top dog: FreeDictionary.org
  16. top dog: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. top-dog, top dog: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Top dog: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. top dog: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the top dog: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. top dog: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. top dog: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See top_dogs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (top dog)

noun:  (idiomatic) The boss, the leader (of the pack).
noun:  (idiomatic) In a competition, the one expected to win.

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