Usually means: Behave or dress very showily.
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  1. put on the dog: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. put on the dog: Merriam-Webster
  3. put on the dog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. put on the dog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. put on the dog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. put on the dog: Wiktionary
  7. put on the dog: Dictionary.com
  8. put on the dog: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put on the dog: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put on the dog: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (put on the dog)

verb:  (colloquial, idiomatic, dated) To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious.

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