dogfood

dogfood
A verb from the high tech industry. Meaning to use what you are selling. From old TV commercials where a celebrity would endorse Alpo: This is Lorne Greene. I feed my own dogs Alpo!

Bill Gates uses Microsoft Word. He has to show the world he's dogfooding.


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