dog-napper

English

Noun

dog-napper (plural dog-nappers)

1. Alternative form of dognapper
   • 1998, Nona Kilgore Bauer, Traveling with Dogs, page 11:

     Whether true or not, this kind of plea may heighten the public's compassion and dampen the potential dog-napper's notion of a big-money reward for your beloved "expensive" purebred dog.

   • 2012, June Whyte, Muzzled:

     Hell, by this time, the dog-napper could have caught a plane to the north of Australia and be rounding up kangaroos to slaughter for fun along the Dingo-proof and may never be found.

   • 2018, James R. Black, What I Wish I Had Learned in Seminary:

     I still feel that the dog-napper should have to pay me for my loss or serve some time for his actions.