Usually means: Pages folded down as bookmarks.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dog-eared: Merriam-Webster
  2. dog-eared, dog-eared: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dog-eared: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dog-eared, dog-eared: Wordnik
  5. dog-eared: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dog-eared: Wiktionary
  7. dog-eared: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Dog-eared, dog-eared: Dictionary.com
  9. dog-eared: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dog-eared: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dog-eared: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dog-eared: Rhymezone
  13. dog-eared: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dog-eared: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dog-eared: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dog-eared: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dog-eared: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dog-ear as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a page in a book or other publication: having its corner folded down, either due to having been read many times, or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.
adjective:  (figuratively) Ragged, worn-out; also, hackneyed, tired.

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