porker
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Today, that piglet is Tucker—a 200-pound porker who has outgrown the family bathroom, shredded a couch and required the installation of heavy-duty horse panels to keep him from escaping the yard of his Arizona home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
The escape became a ruckus, involving about 20 people, including six Sebastopol police officers, a farmer, three businessmen and a gaggle of children who all got into the porker pursuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
The 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The escaped portly porker was found in the Southtown area of Great Yarmouth on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022
“Roast the best porker and prepare a meal. I’ll go to try my father. Will he know me? Can he imagine it, after twenty years?”
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
A breeze passes over the teeming feces and into hog houses holding 1,000 porkers or turkey barns filled with 20,000 birds.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
Two runaway porkers, thought to be Vietnamese Pot-bellied pigs, hurt a golfer at Lightcliffe Golf Club, near Halifax, on Sunday, and the greens director when they returned on Sunday.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2021
The hungry porkers plunged their spade-like snouts into the soft turf; they can go three feet deep if the digging is good.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 31, 2018
Mr. Cortopassi said he was only trying to protect the state from greedy politicians and business interests he referred to as porkers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
This being told, he tucked his long shirt up inside his belt and strode into the pens for two young porkers.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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