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K9 or K-9 is an abbreviation and homophone of Canine. It may refer to:

A variety of entries, most related to dogs. The term originated in the military, where designations such as G-2 are common, making K-9 a rare official pun, being similar to "canine". The term, originally referencing war dogs, has since carried over to police, and sentry and assistance dogs as well.

Titled expressive works:

• K-9 (TV series), Doctor Who spin-off
• K-9 Kadets, a 1944 movie
• K-9 (film), 1989 Universal City Studios comedy starring James Belushi. It has two sequels, K-911 and K-9: P.I.
• K-9 Corrections, a television movie released in 2001.

Fictional robot dogs:

• K-9 (Doctor Who) on television
• K9 Murphy, in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger on television
• K-9, a character from the computer role-playing game Fallout 2
• K-9, a wolf-like enemy in the video game Super Mario RPG
• K-9, Marvin the Martian's pet Martian dog in the Looney Tunes cartoon series from Warner Bros.

Machinery:

• HMAS K9, Australian submarine
• K9 Thunder, 155 mm self-propelled artillery used by the Republic of Korea Armed Forces
• AMD K9, microprocessors

Other:

• K-9 (Kansas highway)
• K9, Krylo Airlines
• K9 Web Protection, a web content control software.
• K9Copy, a DVD backup and authoring program for Unix-like OSs (GNU/Linux and BSD).

See also

• Canine (disambiguation)

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Alternative spellings

• K-9

Etymology

K-9 is pronounced similar to 'canine'.

Noun

K9 (plural K9s)

1. A trained police dog.
   • 2003, Nicholas H. Dodman, If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People, page 248

     Police working dogs (K9s) often have extremely close bonds with their handlers.

   • 2003, Trevor J. Orsinger, The Firefighter's Best Friend: Lives and Legends of Chicago Firehouse Dogs, Page 90

     Originally a K9 dog for the police department, Captain was asked to resign for unknown reasons.

   • 2005, Priya Kapoor, Nandita Jaishankar, VIPs: Very Important Pets, page 71

     Apollo, part of the New York Police Department K9 Search and Rescue team was on the scene of the disaster just 15 minutes after the disaster

   • 2006, Asa Nonami, Juliet Winters Carpenter, The Hunter: A Detective Takako Otomichi Mystery, page 134

     The Saitama Prefectural Police Department, for example, had no K9 units of its own, and relied on contract dogs exclusively.