hogpen
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hogpen
Example Sentences
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Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen.
From Time Magazine Archive
They keep us tied up for six weeks, then stick us in that hogpen upstairs and say, 'Go ahead, give us a verdict.'
From Time Magazine Archive
And many demonstrators obediently climbed into trucks for the trip to the hogpen prison.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he’s been promoted, so we told him, from the yard to the hogpen.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
But, taking an axe, we cut young pine trees and constructed a fence round the wagon to serve as a hogpen.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
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