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Doghouse

1. Often thought of as a figurative place where boyfriends and husbands end up when they are on bad terms with there girlfriend or wife. The reality is the doghouse is a super dope place where guys that are in trouble go to have a real solid time away from their significant other. It is the best version of a man cave with all of a man's best friends present that he can escape to when in hot water with their significant other. In general, there is usually lots of beer there.

2. Snoop Dogg's place of residence
Jon was pumped to be hanging with his boys in the doghouse after his wifey got mad at him for being inebriated instead of folding the socks!
by bd2390 November 14, 2016
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doghouse

What do you do with a bad dog? You make them sleep outside in the small, cold, doghouse.

Putting someone in the "doghouse" is to shame, humiliate, and cut them off from everything and everyone else. The same way a dog is cut off from everything when they're forced outside, and have nowhere left to sleep but their dog house.
Yes I lied! It was a sin, I've committed many sins! Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?! 3.8 million new jobs. That wasn't good? Bail out Mexico?! Increase foreign trade?! Thirty million acres of new land for conservation! Put Mendoza on the bench! Raised three children!!

That's not enough to buy me out of the doghouse?!
by SwampFox56 November 2, 2015
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doghouse

Where you are figuratively when you're on bad terms with your girlfriend or wife.
Freddy knew that if he wanted to get out of the doghouse with his bitch he'd better start wearing her thighs for earmuffs.
by Nick D April 1, 2004
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Doghouse's Laws of Television

Situations in respect of people and programmes on Television.
From observation, recognising that the general standard of television in my opinion has deteriorated and continues to do so year by year, so much so I now watch very little, I’ve found as far as the programme quality and content on all television channels, the following Doghouse's Laws of Television often apply.

I started compiling this list several years ago and some of these "laws" are now occasionally mentioned by contributors to a specific TV network message board, though of course they can apply to any channel.
I'm sure other contributors may relate to some of them and can think of other examples of practices which could be added to the list.


With a new programme, if your impression of it after ten minutes is that it's going to be rubbish, you’ll only be right 95% of the time.


The number of advance programme trails screened, will be in inverse proportion to the quality of the programme. The ”best bits” of any programme will be included in the trail.

The volume of background music will often be in inverse proportion to the amount of watchable activity on the screen at that time.


Any TV audience gets the standard of programmes it deserves. It’s no good complaining about the quality of a programme if you continue to watch it.

If an idea for a programme suggested to a TV network commissioning department isn’t another soap in one form or another, or requires an "in your face" presenter/auto-cutie, celebrities, judges, phone votes, or the inclusion of dysfunctional members of the public, it is unlikely to be made.

The number of programme presenters appearing at any one time, will usually be in inverse proportion to the quality of the programme.

The number and variety of similar programmes on TV, are likely to be in inverse proportion to their cost to present.

To reach the widest audience, in a programme where the subject is of a specific nature, it may include totally unrelated elements in an attempt to also “engage” viewers who aren’t the slightest bit interested in the actual topic, in a futile attempt to increase the ratings.

Some programmes, even a few news bulletins, given the level at which the programme makers pitch their production, should have the words; "for Dummies" added to the title.

If you've any doubts about watching a programme, from the trails or advertising you've seen, take a chance, give it a miss.
by Doghouse Riley November 2, 2008
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dollhouse straight

When your huge hand loses on the river because a straight is on the board.
I should have won that hand, but since the cards weren't shuffled, my pocket aces lost to the dollhouse straight.
by MaBell October 28, 2005
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dosshouse

Orig. British Isles

n. A place of lodging for the destitute; the poor or homeless.

Alternatively known as workhouses, poorhouses, lodging houses, or "fourpenny hotels", destitute people would pay a cheap fee or work in return for being allowed to sleep in a dormitory-like situation with other homeless people - men, women and children alike. Usually people were segregated by gender.

These establishments were prevalent in the 19 century, though the word itself dates from the second half of the 1800s.

Some were private and some public. Most were charitable or set up by religious establishments. Some might include a meal for the price. The modern, though much higher standard, equivalent, would be a hostel / youth hostel.
"There are many kinds of dosshouses, but in one thing they are all alike, from the filthy little ones to the monster big ones paying five per cent and blatantly lauded by smug middle-class men who know nothing about them, and that one thing is their uninhabitableness."
by Setanta May 21, 2014
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Doghouse Special

The first sit down meal between a couple following a falling-out, disagreement and/or argument where one party has clearly been in the wrong.
Oh, that guys having the doghouse special over there...
by Dougy_18 July 17, 2011
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