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
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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
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
These larger tech companies could try to hogtie Clearview in the courts, but imitators would presumably show up to fill its place.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2020
“Wait till you see me rope and hogtie a steer.”
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
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
Collect the kid, an' you'll sure have Em hogtied.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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 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
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
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
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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