hogtie
Americanverb (used with object)
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to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
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to hamper or thwart.
Repeated delays hogtied the investigation.
verb
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to tie together the legs or the arms and legs of
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to impede, hamper, or thwart
Etymology
Origin of hogtie
Example Sentences
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Tuttle’s fearless inquisition won’t insult your intelligence, ask your mercy or hogtie your feelings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026
An enchanted Amazon truck magically supplies materials for our heroes’ needs, whether it’s to hogtie an adversary or stitch up a wound.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
Mr. Lorenz’s confession got details wrong — for instance, he said a hogtie was used when one was not — and it was deemed inadmissible at trial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
These were startling and stirring words, the kind that hogtie your attention.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2021
Then hogtie yore curiosity—or you'll be gettin' yore time.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
By the time Gamsjaeger returned with the medicine, they’d put the hogtied horse into the back of a trailer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
It's an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2022
“By the time we arrived, the parishioners had the subject hogtied and in custody,” Orange County Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2022
The Ravens as a group, however, continued to be hogtied by zone-blocking in the trenches.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2012
I was hogtied to that shale ledge with my broken ankle, as you might say.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
The state Attorney General’s Office in Washington recommended against using hogtying in its model use-of-force policy released in 2022.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said it still allows hogtying but declined to comment on the bill.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
The San Diego doctors proposed a study, paid for in part by the county, that would measure the effects of hogtying in controlled laboratory conditions.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
A federal judge ruled in favor of the county, saying the study had shown the dangers of hogtying to be “fictitious.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
Circuit Court of Appeals agreed – even though it had heard a case involving hogtying in Florida in 2009.
From Reuters ● May 8, 2020
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