Mad Dog
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Mad Dog is a nickname. One of the earlist documented references for the term is in 1577 to refer to a strong ale called Madde Dogge. By 1818 it referred to the plant Scutellaria lateriflora,mad-dog skullcap, supposedly a cure for hydrophobia [1]
Mad Dog is used to refer to:
- Mad Dog Coll, a notorious Prohibition-era Irish-American gangster
- Michael McAnany (Madden player on espn reality show Madden Nation)
- Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou, American musician
- Adam Macdougall, a Rugby League player that currently plays for the Newcastle Knights
- Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, co-host of a sports radio program on WFAN New York and the YES Network
- Dominic "Mad Dog" McGlinchey, republican paramilitary
- Johnny Adair aka "Mad Dog", loyalist paramilitary
- Greg Maddux, starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres
- Maurice Vachon, French-Canadian wrestler
- Robbie Muir (footballer), former Australian rules footballer
- Emanuel Pogatetz, an Austrian soccer player
- Jay Michaels, also known as "Mad Dog", a Canadian broadcaster who co-hosts the Mad Dog and Billie radio show.
- Jon "maddog" Hall, a free software programmer
- John Madden (ice hockey), ice hockey player for the NHL's New Jersey Devils
In Fiction:
- Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, a character from the movie Back to the Future Part III
- Mad Dog (Hard Boiled), a character from the John Woo film Hard Boiled
- Mad Dog Rassitano a Marvel Comics character
- The Mad Dog (comics) an assassin in the DC Universe
- Mad Dog (TV series)
Mad Dog could also refer to:
- Mad Dog (John Entwistle Album)
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen (go out in the mid-day sun), song originally by Noel Coward
- A song by Elastica
- A song by Deep Purple from The House of Blue Light
- Mad Dog Dance
- Mad Dog (oil platform) - Oil Platform in Gulf of Mexico
- MD 20/20, a fortified wine
- The MD-80, a medium range, single-aisle commercial jet.
- A missile that is launched without a target locked on. Such a weapon usually locks on to the first target it acquires, friend or foe.
- Mad Dog McCree, an early 90s lightgun game
- Mad Dog Multimedia, a tech company
- Mad Dog can refer to either of the following Contra characters
- The name given to the character Bill Rizer in the American localization of Contra and Super C for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- A new character with that name in Contra 4 for the Nintendo DS.
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[edit] References
- ^ mad dog, n.; Oxford English Dictionary
