police dog

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   any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking

   Broaderworking dog

Questions about police dog

What does police dog mean?

police dog means "any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking".

Is police dog a common word?

police 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.