Overdog

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field

    "Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequently irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs:"

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"Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequently irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs:"

Etymology

From over- + dog, modelled on earlier underdog.

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