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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.
- 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. Compare sag ( def 6a ).
hog
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noun
- a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
- any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
- dialect.Alsohogg another name for hogget
- informal.a 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
- slang.a large powerful motorcycle
- go the whole hog informal.to do something thoroughly or unreservedly
if you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?
- live high on the hog or live high off the hog informal.to have an extravagant lifestyle
verb
- slang.to take more than one's share of
- to arch (the back) like a hog
- to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short
Derived Forms
- ˈ³ó´Ç²µËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
- ˈ³ó´Ç²µ²µ±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó´Ç²µÂ·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·³ó´Ç²µ²µ±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hog1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hog1
Idioms and Phrases
- live high off / on the hog, Informal. to be in prosperous circumstances. Also eat high off the hog.
- go the whole hog. whole hog. Also go whole hog.
More idioms and phrases containing hog
see go hog wild ; go whole hog ; high off the hog ; road hog .Example Sentences
"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.
All that open space created by Toia’s block hogging has benefited teammates.
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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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