whole-hog

[hohl-hawg, -hog]

SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR whole-hog ON THESAURUS.COM

adjective Informal.

complete and thorough; wholehearted.

Origin of whole-hog

First recorded in 1820–30

whole hog

noun Informal.

the furthest extent; everything: With them it was whole hog or nothing.

Idioms

go whole hog, to do something completely or thoroughly: The townspeople went whole hog for the celebration.Also go the whole hog.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for whole-hog

across-the-board, broad, thorough, wholesale, comprehensive, radical, extensive, exhaustive, all-encompassing, uncut, uncensored, entire, full, outright, in-depth, intensive, full-scale, encyclopedic, sweeping, complete

Examples from the Web for whole-hog

Contemporary Examples of whole-hog

Why did we buy into AIG and Citigroup when we could have actually bought Goldman whole-hog, for a cut-rate price?
Our Crashing Portfolio
Duff McDonald
May 4, 2009

Historical Examples of whole-hog

The "whole-hog men" would have none of them, and therein lay the distinction.
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
Ward H. Lamon
He must be "a whole-hog man" or nothing, a Whig or a Democrat.
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
Ward H. Lamon

British Dictionary definitions for whole-hog

whole hog

noun

slang the whole or total extent (esp in the phrase go the whole hog)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with whole-hog

whole hog

see go whole hog.