Usually means: Loyal, fearful term in politics.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word yellow dog:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. yellow-dog: Merriam-Webster
  2. yellow dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yellow-dog: Wordnik
  4. Yellow Dog, yellow dog: Wiktionary
  5. yellow dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. yellow dog: Dictionary.com
  7. The Yellow Dog, Yellow Dog (band), Yellow Dog (bootlegger), Yellow Dog (comics), Yellow Dog (novel), Yellow dog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. yellow dog: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (Yellow Dog)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
noun:  (US, especially Southern US) A Carolina dog.
noun:  (US, informal) An item or person of low value.
noun:  (US politics, uncommon) Short for Yellow Dog Democrat. [(US politics, dated) A Democrat, especially a Southern one, who votes a straight party ticket; one who invariably votes for Democratic candidates.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of yellow dog, chiefly used when the word has the sense "Carolina dog" or the sense "Yellow Dog Democrat". [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.]

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