(Australia) , a disparaging term for canned meat.
(Australia) , a disparaging term for canned meat.
: I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving.
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(Australia, slang, jocular, derogatory) Canned meat.
Dog tucker is New Zealand slang for low-quality sheep meat that's only fit to be fed to dogs rather than served at a dinner table. It's a farming term that found its way into broader NZ vernacular, and it's also used figuratively to describe anything substandard or barely usable — not quite up to scratch, good enough only for the least discerning audience. If someone calls your work dog tucker, they're not paying you a compliment.
Meat from a dog eaten as food.
Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
(Australia) A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.
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