dog catcher

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   an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats

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Questions about dog catcher

What does dog catcher mean?

dog catcher means "an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats".

Is dog catcher a common word?

dog catcher 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.