long pig

American  

noun

1. (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.

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long pig British  

noun

1. obsolete human flesh eaten by cannibals

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Etymology

Origin of long pig

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

A machine composed of a long pig of iron, traversing in a groove, which is raised by a pulley, and let fall suddenly on the head of large bolts for driving them.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

"Upon the long pig that speaks," she whispered.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard

Frocks, aprons, jacket, all were soaked, shoes and stockings were drenched, the long pig tails of the girls streamed large drops, as if they had been little rusty-colored water-pipes.

From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan