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hog

  [hawg, hog] noun, verb, hogged, hog⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang.
a. a large, heavy motorcycle.
b. an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. Also, hogg, hogget. British.
a. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
b. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
c. any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
6. Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
7. a machine for shredding wood.
8. Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
–verb (used with object)
9. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
10. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
11. roach 3 (def. 3).
12. (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
13. to shred (a piece of wood).
–verb (used without object)
14. 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 or on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog.
Origin:
1300–50; ME; cf. OE hogg- in place-names; perh. < Celtic; cf. Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine

Related forms:
hoglike, adjective
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hog   (hôg, hŏg)   
n.  

    1. Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the boar and the wart hog.

    2. A domesticated pig, especially one weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).

    3. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.

    4. One that uses too much of something.

    5. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

    6. The wool from this type of sheep.

    1. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.

    2. One that uses too much of something.

    3. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

    4. The wool from this type of sheep.

  3. also hogg

    1. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

    2. The wool from this type of sheep.

  4. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle.

v.   hogged, hog·ging, hogs

v.   tr.

  1. Informal To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch.

  2. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.

  3. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.

  4. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.

v.   intr.
Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.

[Middle English, from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hog

  1. 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.
  2. n.
    a police officer; a pig. : The hogs are on to you.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

hog
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.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

hog

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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