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hog

[hawg, hog]

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noun

a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.

a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) or more, raised for market.

a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.

Slang.

a large, heavy motorcycle.

an impressively large luxury automobile.

Also, hogg, hogget. British.

a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.

the wool shorn from such a sheep.

any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.

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Railroads Slang. a locomotive.

a machine for shredding wood.

Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.

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verb (used with object)

to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.

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to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.

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roach³ (def. 3).

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(in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.

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to shred (a piece of wood).

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wonderful, great, masterful, deeply satisfying

not working, completely messed up, bungled, confused

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verb (used without object)

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Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def. 6a).

Idioms

15.

go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world. Also, go whole hog.

16.

live high off/on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine

Related forms

hog·like, adjective

un·hogged, adjective

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Example Sentences

It is not the time of your life to be living higher on the hog than you can afford.

Sometimes there are ribs, and every so often a whole hog as well.

Brady wants to test the danger of wild hog tusks, but first he has to get the nerve to get close to one.

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It is not the time of your life to be living higher on the hog than you can afford.

Sometimes there are ribs, and every so often a whole hog as well.

Brady wants to test the danger of wild hog tusks, but first he has to get the nerve to get close to one.

Much more green than a water hog and a waste of perfectly good manure.

It's also a major center of cattle and hog farming.

The agency has pretty much gone hog wild with all the ways you can celebrate.

European hog farming is being transformed by an agricultural powerhouse operating in far-flung outposts.

It's free, although it's a huge space hog on the hard drive.

The bank bail-outs hog attention, but many of the government's crisis measures were designed to prop up the shadow system.

The boys track down a wild hog and castrate it in order to help control the hog population in the swamp.

However what suprises me is the complete avoidance of the idea that it might have been a wild hog.

To be fair, having them feathered would be a huge resource hog.

It turns out your computer is a much bigger material and energy hog than previously believed.

They would end practices among cattle and hog buyers that may lower prices paid to farmers and feedlot owners.

He cites the pork industry, which used to be blighted with hog cholera.

He also loves working with and training his hog hunting dogs.

In the suddenly zooming story of electric cars, it's the cars themselves that have tended to hog the spotlight.

One doesn't really want to encourage people to hog the internet consoles when other people are waiting to check their email.

Shooting feral pigs from helicopters won't work, but some rational steps should be taken to help control the wild hog population.

But when they do, physics and biology-those aristocrats of science-will no longer hog the headlines.

My husband found her and her parents in a hog shed and convinced the owners to give them up.

All you naysayers will be looking pretty foolish when the chinese get to the moon and hog it for themselves.

If you're going to go see it, you might as well go whole hog.

After an intense organizing battle, workers at the world's largest hog slaughterhouse have voted to unionize.

But the debate is nonetheless likely to hog the headlines for days afterwards.

Meanwhile, products and services that aren't using enough recycled components or that hog too much energy are taking a lot of.

Unless you're willing to go whole hog and buy a complete home entertainment.

WE had come a long way for a hog killing, but the butcher had chosen that day of all days to have a meltdown.

Many incorporate windows where the programme plays on, so the remote-control hog does not prevent others from watching.

If somebody tries to hog the network, the traffic routes away from them.

Tail docking is also commonplace in the hog industry.

The question now is whether to go the whole hog and buy a serious digital camera for work as well as play.

That's why humans who enter farrowing hog barns sometimes have to shower and wear gowns.

For example, as investment funds piled into hog futures the price fell sharply-even as prices of other commodities rose.

In addition, producers often force major swings in prices, which is what happened among hog farmers in the last year.

As they receded from view, health took centre stage and continued to hog the limelight for almost a year.

Emphasis on hog stakes testing is spiraling out of control.

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World English Dictionary

hog (hɒɡ)

—n
1.	a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
2.	(US), (Canadian) any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
3.	dialect (Brit), (Austral), (NZ) another name for hogget Also: hogg
4.	informal a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
5.	nautical a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
6.	nautical Compare sag the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged
7.	another word for camber
8.	slang chiefly (US) a large powerful motorcycle
9.	informal go the whole hog to do something thoroughly or unreservedly: if you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?
10.	informal chiefly (US) live high on the hog to have an extravagant lifestyle

—vb , hogs, hogging, hogged
11.	slang to take more than one's share of
12.	to arch (the back) like a hog
13.	to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short

[Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch]

'hogger

—n

'hoglike

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

hog

c.1175 (implied in hogaster), "swine reared for slaughter" (usually about a year old), also used by stockmen for "young sheep" (c.1350) and for "horse older than one year," suggesting the original sense had something to do with an age, not a type of animal. Not evidenced in O.E., but it may have existed.

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Possibility of Celtic origin is regarded by OED as "improbable." Fig. sense of "gluttonous person" is first recorded 1436. Meaning "Harley-Davidson motorcycle" is attested from 1967. The verb meaning "to appropriate greedily" is U.S. slang from 1884 (first attested in "Huck Finn"). The verb hog-tie "bind hands and feet" is first recorded 1894. Hog in armor "awkward or clumsy person in ill-fitting attire" is from 1660. Phrase to go the whole hog (1828) is sometimes said to be from the butcher shop option of buying the whole slaughtered animal (at a discount) rather than just the choice bits. But it is perhaps rather from the story (recorded in Eng. from 1779) of Muslim sophists, forbidden by the Quran from eating a certain unnamed part of the hog, who debated which part was intended and managed to exempt the whole of it from the prohibition.

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Slang Dictionary

hog definition

n.
and hog cadillac. a large car; a souped up car. (See also road hog.) : How do you like my new hog? , Where are you going to park that hog cadillac.
n.
a police officer; a pig. : The hogs are on to you.
n.
an addict who requires very large doses to sustain the habit. (Drugs.) : Ernie is turning into a hog. He just can't get enough.
n.
phencyclidine (PCP), an animal tranquilizer. (Drugs.) : We're glad to learn that the demand for hog is tapering off.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary

hog definition

1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, especially those which noticeably degrade interactive response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves (see pig, run like a). More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the processor", "hog the disk". "A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires."
2. Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one file system, they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.

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Idioms & Phrases

hog

see go hog wild; go whole hog; high off the hog; road hog.