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:
“It is cotter-pinned, it is bedded true.
Everything its parts can do
Has been thought out and accounted for.
Your least touch sets it going round,
And when top stop it rests with you.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)