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hogger

[haw-ger, hog-er]

noun

  1. a person or thing that hogs.

  2. Also called hogheadRailroads Slang.,  a locomotive engineer.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of hogger1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; hog + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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A descendant of Lieutenant Columbo, Hercule Poirot and Edgar Allan Poe’s genre-creating C. Auguste Dupin, Blanc is both a diviner of hidden meanings and a master of the obvious, the soul of discretion and a hogger of the spotlight.

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Indeed, the past few days have seen non-stop huffing and puffing about how “hogger joggers” and “Lycra louts” are a blight on Britain.

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Jordan Bruno, 24, said that when he asks a Bart seat hogger to make room for him, he never has a problem.

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They said she was a self-centered spotlight hogger.

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The lane hogger is not doing themselves much good but they're also preventing the people following them from doing what they want to do.

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