Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dog-killer.
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- noun rare The
killing of adog - noun rare A dog
killer
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Examples
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Today's story of police canicide comes to us by way of the Associated Press (click to watch the video).
Russ Belville: DC police kill grandmother's dog while serving drug warrant 2010
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We've told the story of drug war canicide - dog murder - before here on the NORML Stash Blog.
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We've told the story of drug war canicide - dog murder - before here on the NORML Stash Blog.
Russ Belville: Columbia, Missouri, SWAT kills family dog over misdemeanor marijuana possession (with video) Russ Belville 2010
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If our unknown has devised a new method of canicide, it's quite possible he may have worked it somewhere else, too.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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'Norcum,' (for that was the brute's name,) created an enmity between Covert and all who lived within hearing distance, and many were the threats of canicide.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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We've told the story of drug war canicide - dog murder - before here on the cops gunned them down, and even the mayor of a town in Maryland forced to sit handcuffed near a pool of his
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Morning Brew: March 25th, 2009 Before the crazy dog people arrive claiming that this was intential canicide, it looks like it may have just ...
blogTO 2009
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Since the beginning of the year, stories of resistance to eviction, armed self-defense, canicide, arson, self-inflicted injury, murder, as well as suicide, especially in response to the foreclosure
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