The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DOGS
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More clues leading to the result DOGS
- Chases sausages when hot
- Isle we go to in hard times
- Follows pointers?
- Understands one’s love for these pets
- Chases Maltese boxer, possibly
- Period in which volume’s penned by insecure ethologist about old plant
- Gutted, goes after to make tracks
- Follows closely with the hounds
- Tracks, to which degenerate has gone?
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What does DOGS mean?
DOGS noun- A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
- Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A man (derived from definition 2).
- A coward.
- Someone who is morally reprehensible.
- A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- A hot dog.
- Underdog.
- (almost always in the plural) Foot.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To criticize.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- Meat from a dog eaten as food.
- Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
- An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
- Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
- (usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
- Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.