Dictionary
run'ning dog"
Disparaging.
1. (esp. in Chinese Communist propaganda)
a. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests.
b. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey:
to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
2. Archit.See
Vitruvian scroll. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.