Usually means: Small burrowing rodent, North America.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word prairie dog:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. prairie dog: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prairie dog: Merriam-Webster
  3. prairie dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prairie dog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prairie dog: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prairie dog: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prairie-dog, prairie-dog, prairie dog: Wordnik
  8. prairie dog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prairie-dog, prairie dog: Wiktionary
  10. prairie dog: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prairie dog: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prairie dog, prairie dog: Dictionary.com
  13. Prairie Dog (album), Prairie dog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. prairie dog: Rhymezone
  15. PRAIRIE-DOG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. prairie dog: FreeDictionary.org
  17. prairie dog: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. prairie dog: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prairie-dog, prairie dog: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prairie dog: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Prairie Dog: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prairie_dogs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prairie dog)

noun:  Any of genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To pop up from a hole or similar in a manner that resembles the way a prairie dog pops his head up from his burrow.
verb:  (slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement.

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