Definition of "dog-ear" []

• A turned-down corner of a page in a book. (noun)
• To turn down the corner of (the page of a book). (verb-transitive)
• To make worn or shabby from overuse. (verb-transitive)

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• "I have to say I'm one of the people who when they read a book for interviewing or broadcast, I tend to underline and dog-ear, and the only problem is that's supposed to, you know, give me a few places I can look."
• ""He said we should all get a copy of the Federalist Papers and read it, underline it and dog-ear it," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who attended the event."
• ""I didn't sense at all ... that it was skewed in a particular political direction," she added, noting that as one might expect, Scalia "suggested that we all get a hard copy of the Federalist Papers and read them and underline them and dog-ear them.""