noun, verb, hogged, hog⋅ging.| 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.
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| 5. | Also, hogg, hogget. British.
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| 6. | Railroads Slang. a locomotive. |
| 7. | a machine for shredding wood. |
| 8. | Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score. |
| 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). |
| 14. | Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def. 6a). |
| 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. |
