raw dog

English

Alternative forms

• rawdog, raw-dog

Etymology

From raw (“without a condom”) +‎ dog out (“to approach someone sexually”).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

raw dog (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar) Without a condom; bareback.

   Synonyms: raw; see also Thesaurus:condomless

   • 2007, Roosh V, Bang, page 110:

     I advise against going raw dog unless you are in a committed relationship and somewhat certain she is not screwing other guys, but if you do it raw then make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill.

   • 2009, Omar Tyree, Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories), Strebor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 254:

     And she lets me fuck her raw dog now, and cum all up in her until her ears pop.

   • 2010, Cydney Rax, Brothers and Wives, Three Rivers Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 23:

     […] When you were eating my pussy and going raw dog in me, you wanted to hear every little thing I had to say. . . "

Verb

raw dog (third-person singular simple present raw dogs, present participle raw dogging, simple past and past participle raw dogged)

1. (transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex without a condom; to bareback.
   • 2005, Erica L. Perry, A Lesson or a Blessing, AuthorHouse, published 2005, →ISBN, page 27:

     Never go raw dogging with the other woman; it's just not safe.

   • 2006, Cheryl Sutherland, Chocolate Ty, Platinum Peach Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 42:

     […] You don't now^[sic] shit about that girl yet you round here raw dogging her. That ho could be dying from HIV or AIDS, she could have a million kids and trying to set you up to be her next baby daddy, you fucking dummy. For all I know she could be a fucking psycho.”

   • 2008, Allison Hobbs, Big Juicy Lips: Double Dippin' 2, Strebor Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 44:

     “Well, you know...taking you into consideration and everything, I ended up letting him raw dog my coochie. […]

   • 2011, John Tamar, 1,001 Drunk Acts, Strategic Book Group, published 2011, →ISBN, page 163:

     The friend who did this raw dogged her drunk.

2. (transitive, slang, vulgar, figuratively) To do an activity without protection, instruction or an intermediary.

   Rather than using a framework, he's just raw dogging HTML.

   • 2024 July 17, Jessica Roy, “A Wildly Obscene Term’s Path to Mainstream Usage”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-28:

     Over the last few months, the slang term, which has historically been used to refer to sexual intercourse without a condom, has been adopted to describe almost any activity accomplished without the assistance of a buffer. Now, you can rawdog the flu by refusing medication; you can rawdog cooking by not using a recipe; you can even rawdog life, by being sober.

Further reading

• “rawdog adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “raw dog v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• Dowgar, war dog