bottom dog

English

Noun

bottom dog (plural bottom dogs)

1. An underdog (someone at a disadvantage).

   Antonym: top dog

   • 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:

     There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - "kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs", according to one NUR member.

References

• “bottom dog”, in Collins English Dictionary.