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hog
[hawg, hog]
noun
a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kilograms) or more, raised for market.
a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
Slang.
a large, heavy motorcycle.
an impressively large luxury automobile.
British.Also hogg,
a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
Railroads Slang.a locomotive.
a machine for shredding wood.
Curling.a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
verb (used with object)
to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
(in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
to shred (a piece of wood).
verb (used without object)
Nautical.(of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.
hog
/ ɒɡ /
noun
a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
Also: hogg.dialectanother name for hogget
informala selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
nautical a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
nautical the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged Compare sag
another word for camber
slanga large powerful motorcycle
informalto do something thoroughly or unreservedly
if you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?
informalto have an extravagant lifestyle
verb
slangto take more than one's share of
to arch (the back) like a hog
to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short
Other Word Forms
- hoglike adjective
- unhogged adjective
- ˈDzˌ adjective
- ˈDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of hog1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hog1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
The 1859 "pig dispute" involved contested islands near Vancouver and the unfortunate shooting of a British hog that had intruded on an American's garden.
"I love it like a hog loves slop."
So far, the current outbreak of H5N1 has not reached commercial hog operations.
Saha also cautioned that running LLMs on a smartphone or laptop could hog the device's memory for a period of time.
Love Is All Around is a member of a very small club of hits that hogged the charts in the 1990s to the point many couldn't listen to them any more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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