GREYHOUND


Meaning of GREYHOUND in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

racing

The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.

First division football is on offer at Aston Villa and rugby, speedway and greyhound racing are also regularly staged.

Yesterday, it became apparent that those involved in greyhound racing feared that it would have a detrimental effect on their business.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

car/bike/greyhound etc racing

As a boy you were so butch it hurt. Bike racing champ, marble wizard.

Home of County cricket, League football and a greyhound racing stadium.

Mosley's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession.

Sporting events such as car racing give me a headache.

Stock car racing , they say, is family-oriented.

Stock car racing , though, is old-fashioned.

The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.

They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags!

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A greyhound cocked his leg against the table and was promptly shooed away.

Fed-up with watching greyhounds chase a stuffed rabbit?

Guccione said the number has declined over the years partly because the number of greyhounds being bred each year is falling.

He has filled the lanes on the fast break with Kevin Garnett in what looks like a greyhound race.

It is a little-known fact that Laura owned a greyhound at the age of eleven.

Mine were always the breed of Norfolk lurcher, a cross between a Smithfield and a greyhound .

The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.

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