alpha dogging

English

Noun

alpha dogging (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Behaviour characteristic of an alpha dog; crassly dominant behaviour, especially at the expense of another male.
    • 2018, Peter Conrad, The Guardian, 22 October:
      Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?
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