overdog
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + dog, modelled on earlier underdog.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]overdog (plural overdogs)
- someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field
- 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 556:
- Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequenly irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs: