hog

[ hawg, hog ]

/ hɔg, hɒg /

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noun

a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.

a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) or more, raised for market.

a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.

Slang.

a large, heavy motorcycle.
an impressively large luxury automobile.

Also hogg, hogget. British.

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), hogged, hog·ging.

to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.

to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.

roach³(def 3).

(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), hogged, hog·ging.

Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.Compare sag(def 6a).

Nearby words

hofmannsthal, hugo von, hofmeister's operation, hofstadter, hofstadter, richard, hofuf, hog, hog badger, hog cholera, hog fuel, hog heaven, hog latin

Idioms

go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world.Also go whole hog.

live high off/on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances.Also eat high off the hog.

Origin of hog

1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine

Related forms

hog·like, adjectiveun·hogged, adjective

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Complacency is turned against us as the figure bending over the hog suddenly looks up … and speaks.
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After strolling, you can sit outside and eat oysters at Hog Island Oyster Company.
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Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering a bacon martini at Moto?
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Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering it a bacon martini at Moto?
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Showing that in early times there was a hog warden, or person who collected the king's hog-rent in Hereford.
Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850|Various
The inside of the hog is washed with bay rum, and sweet majorum is put in.
Peck's Compendium of Fun|George W. Peck
I never can remember, it is so hard to say—the flesh of the hog salted.'
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Barney built a fire under the big, smoke-blackened cauldron Hetty used for cooking the hog swill.
Make Mine Homogenized|Rick Raphael
The skeleton approaches that of the ox and of the hog, but it presents differences from that of any other animal.
Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.|John Timbs

British Dictionary definitions for hog

hog

/ (hɒɡ) /

noun

a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg

US and Canadian any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig

Also: hogg British dialect, Australian and NZ 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 hoggedCompare sag (def. 6)

another word for camber (def. 4)

slang, mainly US a large powerful motorcycle

go the whole hog informal to do something thoroughly or unreservedlyif 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, mainly US to have an extravagant lifestyle

verb hogs, hogging or hogged (tr)

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

hogger, nounhoglike, adjective

Word Origin for hog

Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch

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Idioms and Phrases with hog

hog

see go hog wild; go whole hog; high off the hog; road hog.

hog

noun

verb (used with object), hogged, hog·ging.

verb (used without object), hogged, hog·ging.

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hog

noun

verb hogs, hogging or hogged (tr)

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