bottom dog

1. 1.

   a person of low status

   Broadersubordinate

Questions about bottom dog

What does bottom dog mean?

bottom dog means "a person of low status".

Is bottom dog a common word?

bottom dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.