A fork of Rural Dictionary
Ankle biters are the seemingly insignificant projects at work that tend to pile up. Like small dogs that bite at your ankles, they do not go away.
The ad campaign is approved. Now I have to deal with ankle-biters such as the 100-50-25 word product descriptions.
a toddler. A child between the ages of 1 and 4.
"Yeah, she's all married an' got a buncha little ankle biters runnin' around"
Someone that feels the need to overcompensate in any way,for any kinda shortcoming; ala small,loud barking dogs that bite your ankles to show you their workin' wit' sumthin'..
To the meathead at the bar that's all angry & likes to kiss his muscles, "Dude! Stop bein' such an ankle-biter!"
A little kid; a rug rat.
Only ankle-biters like Barney; everyone else wants to barbecue him.
Someone who cannot rise to your level, and who can only bite your ankles instead of being able to really bite your head off.
Folks of lower altitude.
My boss is an ankle biter and he's doing well as such
a catch-all term for small dogs who tend, as a group, to be tough, feisty litle beasts and are often touchy and quarrelsome.