Verb meaning whatever you’re discussing isn’t going to work, you lack proper equipment, what was proposed is unacceptable or lacking significantly. My son asked me to check his room to see if it was clean. I glanced around his bedroom and exclaimed, “Timmy, that dog don’t hunt.”
I glanced down at my engagement ring and looked at my new fiancé in disgust and said “Billy, that dog don’t hunt”
1. a way of saying a particular man is a homosexual, wimp or sissy. used by the Bush administration in the campaign against Kerry by using a picture of a fox hound wearing a tutu with the caption "that dog don't hunt," referring to the eventual state of the nation if Kerry had won.
2. a way of saying you or someone else is not interested in a particular activity.
Joe: <to Rick> I heard you were going to go rock climbing with Jim tomorrow.