an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs
"The groomer spent hours clipping the poodle's signature curly coat before it took the stage at the talent show."
A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.
"The network administrator discovered a critical poodle vulnerability in the server's configuration, forcing an immediate patch to prevent attackers from intercepting encrypted communications through the legacy SSL flaw."
A man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of Internet and security software clients' fallback to an older version of SSL.