hog
noun
a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
hogs
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pluralof hog.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof hog (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
hognouna hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
Example Sentences
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AI data centers, like crypto miners before them, are energy hogs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
When in operation, the plant is expected to employ about 3,000 workers and be able to slaughter about 20,000 hogs a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
