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a 45-mph couch potato that sprints like fury then sleeps eighteen hours guilt-free
means A tall, slender breed of dog built for speed, with a deep chest, long legs, and a narrow head, bred for centuries to chase fast-moving game by sight.
from From Old English grīghund, where the second part is plainly 'hound.' The first part is the puzzle: despite appearances, it has nothing reliably to do with the colour grey. It's likely related to Old Norse grey, meaning 'bitch' or simply 'dog,' so the name may once have meant something close to 'dog-hound' — a wonderfully redundant pedigree for so elegant an animal. The grey-as-colour reading is a later folk misreading that the spelling quietly encourages.
- top speed
- hits 45 mph in three strides
- ancient pedigree
- depicted in 4,000-year-old Egyptian art
- vision built-in
- sees movement half a mile away
- low body fat
- too lean to sit comfortably upright
- sprinter not runner
- exhausted after one short burst
greyhound bus lines — largest motorcoach operator in north america, founded 1914, operates over 1,700 routes
greyhound racing — sport at track like florida's daytona greyhound park, where dogs chase mechanical lures at speeds over 40 mph
greyhound sighthound breed — ancient dog breed used for coursing in middle east and egypt, depicted in pharaonic tombs