The expression top dog is an idiomatic for the boss or the leader. In a competition, it is also the favorite or the one expected to win, and the opposite of the underdog. It may be a shorthand reference for a dominance hierarchy.
The name Top Dog may refer to:
- Top Dog (comics), a character from The Secret Life of Top Dog series by Star Comics (a Marvel Comics imprint)
- Top Dog (film), a 1995 action film with Chuck Norris
- Top Dog (rapper), member of the hip hop group O.G.C.
- Top Dog, another name for the card game Big Two
- Top Dawg Entertainment, independent record label
Famous quotes containing the words top and/or dog:
“I can’t forget
How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“When they shot him down in the highway,
Down like a dog in the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at
his throat.”
—Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)