(US, Canada) A person whose job is to catch and remove stray dogs.
(US, Canada) A person whose job is to catch and remove stray dogs.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The official UK, Irish, and Hong Kong term for the person whose job is to enforce local laws on stray and loose dogs — catching strays, investigating complaints about dogs at large, and impounding animals not under proper control. While Americans call this person a dogcatcher (usually with a comic or slightly bureaucratic flavour), dog warden has a more formal, authoritative ring in British usage — these are often local council employees with actual enforcement powers. They're the ones you call when a stray terrier has been living behind the chip shop for a week.
(US) A hunting dog, especially in boar-hunting, trained to latch onto the quarry.
(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) A dogcatcher.
One who catches rats; particularly one who does so professionally.