pig-out
an instance of overindulging in eating; food binge.
Origin of pig-out
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How to use pig-out in a sentence
Or just maybe the occasional pig-out does soothe the soul and make for a happier, healthier individual.
CDC Researchers Find Lower Mortality Rates Among Overweight People | Kent Sepkowitz | January 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBella can pig out whenever there's a carton of Ben Jerry's in the freezer.
Greta, with one eye on her governess, was stealthily cutting a pig out of orange peel.
Villa Rubein and Other Stories | John GalsworthyAnd Grace has got up at four o'clock every morning for a week and stayed up till midnight, trying to get that pig out of sight.
Green Valley | Katharine ReynoldsBoth go out, and begin to get the real pig out, and between the two they pull it out very well.
Basque Legends | Wentworth Webster
An old man, with the stump of a clay pipe in his lips, was turning his pig out to grass as I approached.
Kilgorman | Talbot Baines ReedA fello what does that is makin a pig out of hisself I think.
"That's me all over, Mable" | Edward Streeter
British Dictionary definitions for pig out
(intr, adverb) slang to gorge oneself
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Other Idioms and Phrases with pig-out
Eat ravenously, gorge oneself, as in The kids pigged out on the candy they had collected on Halloween. [Slang; early 1970s]
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