Definition of "coydog" []

• The hybrid offspring of a coyote and a feral dog. (noun)

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• "It could be a number of things: a wolf-dog cross; a very unusual hybrid of a gray wolf and a coyote; a coydog, a coyote-dog cross; or a wolf from Minnesota or Wisconsin."
• "Bud had a coydog that lived in chains in a ramshackle hut out back, part coyote, part alley mutt."
• "The Ursans smelled like a cross between wet coydog and rancid fish."