Definition of "dingo" [din•go]

• A wild dog (Canis dingo) of Australia, having a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown coat. (noun)

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• "Description: The dingo is a declared pest in most states of Australia, and livestock farmers are obliged to cull them."
• "Oddly enough, the word dingo seems to have meant ` tame dog 'in the contributing language, and another word, warrigal, referred to the wild dog."
• "Dogs on the whole are favorably regarded; the associations developed around the word dingo are uniformly pejorative."